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Climate Change Was on the Ballot With Jimmy Carter in 1980—Though No One Knew It at the Time

Gains made under Carter’s presidential leadership in the early 1980s might have bought the planet precious time.
by Jonathan Alter via Made By History on September 29, 2020
Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.
by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020
Woman in the doorway of a kitchen.

Abolish Oil

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.
by Reinhold Martin via Places Journal on June 16, 2020
Dredging Vessel in the water

Dredging Up the Past

A shoreline expert writes about dredging vessels, Louisiana, neoliberalism, and her lifelong quest to save her hometown from the sea.
by Megan Milliken Biven via Current Affairs on May 25, 2020
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Climate Crisis

The levels of carbon currently in the Earth's atmosphere are unprecedented in the historical and geological records. Still, the climate crisis does have a history.

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via Harper's on December 5, 2019

The Planet is Burning Around us: Is it Time to Declare the Pyrocene?

Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene?
by Stephen Pyne via Aeon on November 20, 2019

The Little Ice Age Is a History of Resilience and Surprises

The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embraced.
by Dagomar Degroot via Aeon on November 11, 2019

How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.
by Susanne Rust via Los Angeles Times on November 10, 2019

Climate Change is Wiping Out Harriet Tubman’s Homeland, and We’re Doing Little

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.
by Rona Kobell via Boston Globe on October 24, 2019

Rising Seas Threaten Hundreds of Native American Heritage Sites Along Florida’s Gulf Coast

Hundreds of ancient Native American sites along the Gulf Coast are at risk.
by Jayur Mehta, Tara Skipton via The Conversation on October 11, 2019

Goodbye to Good Earth

A Louisiana tribe’s long fight against the American tide.
by Boyce Upholt via Oxford American on September 3, 2019

Donald Trump Brings Back Manifest Destiny

And good for him. Nations have always competed for strategically placed land and resources.
by James P. Pinkerton via The American Conservative on August 28, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019
A 1947 advertisement for the air conditioner featuring two women looking bemusedly at a new window unit.

The Unexpected History of the Air Conditioner

The invention was once received with chilly skepticism but has become a fixture of American life.
by Haleema Shah via Smithsonian on June 24, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019
A fanciful, seventeenth-century depiction of the fall of Tenochtitlan, with clashing armies.

Did Colonialism Cause Global Cooling? Revisiting an Old Controversy

However the Little Ice Age came to be, we now know that climatic cooling had profound consequences for contemporary societies.
by Dagomar Degroot via Historical Climatology on February 22, 2019

A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
by Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic on February 19, 2019
Artistic photo of factory pollution

Endless Combustion

Three new books examine how the rise of coal, oil, and gas have permanently remade our world.
by Bill McKibben via The Nation on February 6, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.
by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on January 3, 2019
Redwood trees

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps

Cloning can help combat climate change.
via Yale E360 on December 27, 2018
Abandoned house surrounded by water.

Chronicling the End Times on Tangier Island

Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem looks at life on a beautiful, vanishing Virginia island in Chesapeake Bay.
by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on December 4, 2018

California Burning

Wildfires in the American West are becoming ever more prevalent and destructive. How did we get to this point?
by William Finnegan via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2018

How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science

The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.
by Sharon Weinberger via UnDark on April 20, 2018

Paddling Down 'Disappointment River'

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.
by Brian Castner via Atlas Obscura on March 13, 2018
Billy Graham

Billy Graham Was On the Wrong Side of History

Racial tensions are rising, the earth is warming, and evangelicals are doing little to help. That may be Graham’s most significant legacy.
by Matthew Avery Sutton via The Guardian on February 21, 2018
Aerial map showing New Orleans and steamboats on the Mississippi River.

How Humans Sank New Orleans

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.
by Richard Campanella via The Atlantic on February 6, 2018
Photo of Lake Oroville with low water levels, California, 2014.

The West Without Water

What can past droughts tell us about tomorrow?
by B. Lynn Ingram via Origins on November 8, 2017

An Icy Conquest

“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.
by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on October 26, 2017

Hurricanes Drive Immigration to the US

Why hurricane refugees are more likely to come from some countries than others.
by Dean Yang, Parag Mahajan via The Conversation on September 15, 2017
JFK accompanies a man and woman walking through the wreckage of a tornado.
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How Farmers Convinced Scientists to Take Climate Change Seriously

Rural Americans once led the fight to link extreme weather like Hurricane Harvey and human activity. What changed?
by Justin McBrien via Made by History on August 27, 2017
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