Reader’s Corner
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Environment
When a Billion Chinese Jump
CHINA, GREEN OR BLACK? As the country continues its rapid development, this may prove to be the defining…
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
IN 2009, THE YALE PROJECT ON CLIMATE CHANGE and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change…
Climate Refugees
PROJECTIONS of global warming and the expected scale of climate change are becoming repetitious and…
In the Empire of Ice
GRETEL EHRLICH’S newest work, In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape,…
Deep Blue Home
PART ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, part high-seas drama, part mythology, ecology, and cultural history, this…
Two Books on Geoengineering Climate
YOU’VE HEARD plenty of bad news on the climate lately. And there’s more to come.
Might…
Reckoning at Eagle Creek
THE ONLY SAFE PLACE for coal is in the ground. Despite the industry’s “clean coal”…
About a Mountain
JOHN D’AGATA has written a book about one of the nation’s most nagging environmental concerns,…
Down to the Wire
AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL reporter who focuses on American politics, I thought there was no end to my pessimism…
