ENCORE: Why Sea Level Rise Varies Across The World
The sea level is rising more in some coastal places than in others. But why is that? It has to do with wind, currents, glaciers and even the last Ice Age.
Environment
Why Firefighters Are Facing A Growing Mental Health Challenge
Climate change is fueling more destructive, harder-to-control disasters like last year's massive wildfires. The mental and emotional toll for firefighters and first responders is alarming.
Pillagers Of Tropical Forests Can't Hide Behind Clouds Anymore
Environmental watchdogs now can detect deforestation even when it's hidden from sight by rain and clouds. They're using data from radar on a European satellite.
Northwest Natural Gas Company's Plan For A Carbon Neutral Gas System
Natural gas companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. But a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.
What Can We Do Next To Change Nature — In Order To Save It?
Mary Louise Kelly talks with Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under A White Sky. The book tackles the ways humans have sought to control nature — only to create unintended problems for future generations.
Facing A Reckoning, Wyoming Wrestles With A Transition From Fossil Fuels
The Biden administration is expected to be sued over its ban on new oil and gas leasing on federal land. In top fossil fuel states like Wyoming, cuts to services and mass layoffs were already looming.
From Electrifying Rivers To Dimming The Sun, How Humans Try (And Fail) To Master Nature
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert talks about the ways humans have harmed the natural world — and the unintended consequences of efforts to reverse the damage. Her new book is Under a White Sky.
Landslide In Northern India Leaves At Least 24 Dead, More Missing
A landslide in the Himalayas in Northern India has killed at least two dozen people and more than 150 are missing.
Elon Musk Funds $100 Million XPrize For Pursuit Of New Carbon Removal Ideas
The goal, XPrize says, is to tackle "the biggest threat facing humanity — fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle. "
'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist
Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.