The Language of Catastrophe
FIVE YEARS AGO, DUTCH ELM disease finally killed what may have been the last remaining English elm grove in the United States. Planted more than two hundred years ago at an Continue reading
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The Land of the Blue Roofs
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. WE ARE FLYING INTO THE LAND OF BLUE ROOFS. In this place Continue reading
Nature Writers to the Rescue!
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. I STAND ACCUSED. I have long been called a nature writer. I Continue reading
Courage in Crisis
WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my father would talk about the rain. How it usually fell during certain times of the year, and the farmers could count on it. Over a relatively Continue reading
Beneath the Ice
A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World is a monthly column about the future of climate change. MY MOTHER IS DYING and the world is warming. Both occupy my Continue reading