Drought Migrants

Julia Kumari-DrapkinAugust 9, 2019

Severe drought in Honduras has left two brothers weighing the weather odds and facing a life-changing decision: To stay or start over some place else.

Climate ChangeEnvironmental Justice

Desert in a Box

Sanden TottenOctober 20, 2017

A team of scientists is cataloging the minute details of threatened ecosystems so that we can rebuild them should they ever disappear.

Climate ChangeWildlife

Why Isn’t Climate Change a Dinner Table Topic?

Tricia Bobeda and Greta JohnsenSeptember 15, 2017

Why is this subject, which many of us know is so important, still so easy to ignore?

Climate Change

The Gross Gatherings: A Climate Fight on Chicago’s South Side

Shannon HeffernanJuly 28, 2017

Cheryl Watson lives in the house where she grew up and doesn't want to leave. But regular and relentless flooding, exacerbated by climate change, is destroying ...

Climate ChangeWater

The Home By the Shore

Sam Evans-BrownJuly 7, 2017

As sea levels rise, more than 12 million people living in the country's coastal communities face an existential choice: Fortify, accommodate or relocate.

Climate Change

A Princess, a Miner and a Movement to Stop the War on Coal

Dan WeissmannSeptember 2, 2016

As coal has been pulled into the middle of the climate change fight, a town's entire heritage has been dragged in too.

CultureEnergy

The Thin Blue Ribbon

Alex KotlowitzAugust 5, 2016

Former astronaut Piers Sellers is dying. And he wants to spend his last days on Earth working on climate change.

Climate Change

Coming Home To Coal Country

Rebecca Hersher & Shannon HeffernanJuly 1, 2016

A young environmentalist returns to her Pennsylvania hometown, where the issues that drove her away to begin with are now driving her back.

Energy