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

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

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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.

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

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

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

Jimmy Carter speaking in front of a row of solar panels.

Energy Is Central to American Politics. That All Started with Jimmy Carter.

We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

by Gautama Mehta via Grist on January 9, 2025

Depictions of possible causes of apocalypse through war, disaster, and climate change.

Apocalypse, Constantly

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

by Adam Kirsch via The Atlantic on December 31, 2024

The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism

Tim LaHaye bridged Reagan-era anti-Communism to today’s Christian Nationalism, opposing humanism, evolution, and secularism, emphasizing biblical morality.

by Paul Braterman via 3 Quarks Daily on December 29, 2024

Reenactors working with performance artist Dread Scott in 2019 retrace the route of an 1811 rebellion of enslaved people in Louisiana.

My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

by Chantal James via The New Republic on December 28, 2024

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The Burned-Over District

The Northeast caught fire this fall, in a way that recalls its past. History has some lessons about how to manage the region’s fire seasons to come.

by Stephen Pyne via HNN on December 10, 2024

Black Earth

In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved—and is reclaiming his family’s story and the soil beneath his feet.

by Christina Cooke via The Bitter Southerner on November 25, 2024

The famous photo of the eyes from The Great Gatsby.

How “The Great Gatsby” Changed the Landscape of New York City

On Robert Moses, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the culture of environmental waste.

by John Marsh via Monthly Review on November 13, 2024

Who Owns the Mountains?

Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.

by Olivia Paschal via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2024

An aerial view of a forest meeting with a burnt, empty landscape.

Does the U.S. Have a Fire Problem?

Forest fires of 1910 sparked a media-driven fire exclusion policy, which has arguably worsened today's "fire problem."

by Richard Bednarski via Edge Effects on October 10, 2024

Photographs of historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag in front of a Nuclear War plan background

Two Generations of Nuclear Hopes and Nuclear Fears

A conversation with historian Zachary Schrag and his father Philip Schrag about their multi-generational encounters with nuclear threats.

by Alex Wellerstein via Doomsday Machines on October 4, 2024

A ragpicker collects recyclable materials at a landfill.

Why Recycling Is Mostly Garbage

In two new books, the rise of recycling is a story of illusory promises, often entwined with disturbing political agendas.

by Daniela Blei via The New Republic on September 27, 2024

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