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Mario Tama / Getty A Blanket of Snow for California
A collection of unusually snowy scenes from California, Nevada, and Arizona
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Brian Finke for The Atlantic The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
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Mario Tama / Getty Dust Lakes Keep Popping Up Across the West
The demise of salt lakes threatens humans and wildlife alike.
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Marco Longari / AFP / Getty Madagascar’s Fishers Are Stuck on Land
As a result of stormier seas caused by climate change, lifelong fishers have more than a month’s less ocean time on average than they did 40 years ago.
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Jan Richard Heinicke / laif / Redux Cities Really Can Be Both Denser and Greener
A classic urban trade-off might not be our destiny. That’s great news for the climate.
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Thilo Schmuelgen / Reuters Despite Protests, a German Coal Mine Expands
Images of demonstrations in the village of Luetzerath, beside a gigantic coal-mine pit
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Carl Court / Getty What Snow Days Mean to Adults
An ode to a natural gift that could melt away
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Patrick Hertzog / AFP / Getty A Visit to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Images from a recent voyage to several groups of subantarctic islands
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Getty; The Atlantic Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us
The downside of heavy, overpowered trucks and SUVs
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Rop van Mierlo Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
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Arno Balzarini / Keystone / Redux Future Generations Might Never Get to Kiss Under the Mistletoe
Climate change is threatening this yuletide classic.
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Johan Ordonez / AFP / Getty 2022: The Year in Volcanic Activity
Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year
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Mark Power / Magnum Boston Is Losing Its Snow Wicked Fast
New England is warming more quickly than almost anywhere else on Earth.
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Brandon Bell / Getty Images What Fusion May Mean for a Carbon-Free Future
A tantalizing new scientific breakthrough will mean little if we don’t build the infrastructure to support it.
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Barneo AG Arctic Adventurers Have a Russia Problem
The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty How to Decarbonize Crypto
The sins of FTX aren’t the only problem the crypto world needs to pay for.
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Nick Cobbing / Panos Pictures / Redux Underground Cables Are Taking the Planet’s Pulse
Geologists are using fiber optics to monitor earthquakes, volcanoes, and traffic noise.
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Anthony Kwan / Getty China’s Blank-Paper Protests Are Only a Beginning
Citizens who suddenly recognize the nature of their authoritarian government don’t easily forget about it.
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AUL LOEB / AFP/ Getty The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War
Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.
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BackyardProduction / iStockphoto / Getty Autumn Colors and Autumn Chill
One last look at the colorful beauty of this autumn, seen in cities and countryside vistas across the Northern Hemisphere
