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Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Hundreds of ancient Native American sites along the Gulf Coast are at risk.

by Jayur Mehta, Tara Skipton via The Conversation on October 11, 2019

Climate Crisis

The levels of carbon currently in the Earth's atmosphere are unprecedented in the historical and geological records. Still, the climate crisis does have a history.

A 1947 advertisement for the air conditioner featuring two women looking bemusedly at a new window unit.

The Unexpected History of the Air Conditioner

The invention was once received with chilly skepticism but has become a fixture of American life.

by Haleema Shah via Smithsonian on June 24, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

A fanciful, seventeenth-century depiction of the fall of Tenochtitlan, with clashing armies.

Did Colonialism Cause Global Cooling? Revisiting an Old Controversy

However the Little Ice Age came to be, we now know that climatic cooling had profound consequences for contemporary societies.

by Dagomar Degroot via Historical Climatology on February 22, 2019

A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

by Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic on February 19, 2019

Artistic collage fire, cars trains, factories, and air pollution.

Endless Combustion

Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas have permanently remade our world.

by Bill McKibben via The Nation on February 6, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.

by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on January 3, 2019

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps

Cloning can help combat climate change.

via Yale E360 on December 27, 2018

Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.

by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on December 4, 2018

California Burning

Wildfires in the American West are becoming ever more prevalent and destructive. How did we get to this point?

by William Finnegan via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2018

How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.

by Sharon Weinberger via UnDark on April 20, 2018

Paddling Down 'Disappointment River'

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.

by Brian Castner via Atlas Obscura on March 13, 2018

Billy Graham Was On the Wrong Side of History

Racial tensions are rising, the earth is warming, and evangelicals are doing little to help. That may be Graham’s most significant legacy.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via The Guardian on February 21, 2018

Aerial map showing New Orleans and steamboats on the Mississippi River.

How Humans Sank New Orleans

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.

by Richard Campanella via The Atlantic on February 6, 2018

Photo of Lake Oroville with low water levels, California, 2014.

The West Without Water

What can past droughts tell us about tomorrow?

by B. Lynn Ingram via Origins on November 8, 2017

Jamestown colonists welcoming relief boats arriving.

An Icy Conquest

“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.

by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on October 26, 2017

Hurricanes Drive Immigration to the US

Why hurricane refugees are more likely to come from some countries than others.

by Dean Yang, Parag Mahajan via The Conversation on September 15, 2017

JFK accompanies a man and woman walking through the wreckage of a tornado.

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How Farmers Convinced Scientists to Take Climate Change Seriously

Rural Americans once led the fight to link extreme weather like Hurricane Harvey and human activity. What changed?

by Justin McBrien via Made By History on August 27, 2017

Photograph of two of the original organizers preparing for the first Earth Day (1970). At left, a woman holds up two advertisements for the event. In front, a man stares into the camera (Denis Hayes) while holding a phone.

The Fate of Earth Day

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.

by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on April 8, 2013

A US military LeTourneau LCC-1 Sno-Train carrying supplies near Camp Century in 1959.

Thin Ice: The History of US Involvement in Greenland

Donald Trump's quest to acquire Greenland has a precedent in US Cold War history. We should consider it a cautionary tale.

by Gretchen Heefner via Foreign Exchanges on September 16, 2025

Picture of U.S. capital with the backdrop of the American Flag, with a red reflection.

The Treacherous Allure of the “Polarization” Dogma

Fareed Zakaria blames America’s crisis on “polarization,” but the real issue is asymmetric radicalization: the Right’s anti-democratic turn.

by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on September 14, 2025

Mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb going off.

Inside the History of Nuclear Science

Eighty years after the bomb, scientists still grapple with nuclear legacy. Some seek atonement, others insist it’s no longer their burden.

by Erik Baker via New Statesman on August 6, 2025

A man walks in the sun near palm trees and their small shadows.

How America Became Hostile to Shade

A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

by Piper French via The New Republic on July 30, 2025

Religion in the Lands That Became America

Historian Thomas A. Tweed proposes an environmental approach to the study of American religion.

by Karis Ryu via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on July 22, 2025

Highways & Horizons, front and back covers of brochure for the General Motors pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. [Prelinger Library]

Highways and Horizons

The Interstate Highway System created a national polity defined by circulation. To rethink the Interstates is to rethink the United States.

by Reinhold Martin via Places Journal on June 20, 2025

Regime Change in the West?

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.

by Perry Anderson via London Review of Books on March 25, 2025

A drawing of a person staring at two different smartphones, with robotic arms holding their head in place.

What If the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on January 20, 2025

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