Climate
Part of the story of Pozzuoli, a seaside town, is told by the harbor. Old stone docks with slightly off…
There are no spectacular explosions when the glaciers collapse high in the Himalayan air. Silently, almost courteously, they move away,…
Apartment radiators occasionally hum with a nervous sort of uncertainty on chilly winter mornings in eastern Germany. Despite the heat,…
Something extraordinary has awakened in the wind-beaten silence of Greenland’s ice sheet. The melt has produced a microscopic discovery that…
I can still picture myself standing close to Norris Geyser Basin, the steam flowing up from the earth like old…
When the Palisades fire exploded across Sunset Boulevard the next morning, the air was heavy with that metallic smell that…
The air smelled of damp loam instead of dust when I arrived to Merzouga in late October 2024. It was…
The landscape seems serene from the crater rim of Mount Ruapehu. The lake is motionless. There is no sulfur in…
The Lesula monkey does not roar or flamboyantly jump between branches. Rather, it observes. Its wide-eyed, guarded gaze is eerily…
Most of the time, what’s going on beneath the Atlantic doesn’t make the news. However, a number of recent scientific…
The report could as well have been classified even though it hadn’t been. No one on Capitol Hill seemed ready…
The town of Menindee reached 49.1°C on day seven of Australia’s record-breaking heatwave, with almost no one outside. The locals…
