50 Great Articles and Essays about the Environment
The best writing about environmental issues from around the netClimate Change
Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich
Sixty Years of Climate Change Warnings by Alice Bell
Beyond Catastrophe by David Wallace Wells
The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics by David Wallace-Wells
We Should Fix Climate Change — but We Should Not Regret It by Thomas R. Wells
The Problem With Putting a Price on the End of the World by David Leonhart
The Century of Climate Migration by Gaia Vince
To Save Sequoias from Wildfire, We Must Save Them from Ourselves by Kyle Dickmann
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Pollution
The Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes by Steven Johnson
How 3M Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals by Sharon Lerner
The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare by Nathaniel Rich
America's Real Criminal Element by Kevin Drum
Environmentalism
When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job by John H. Richardson
Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement by Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Think Globally, Destroy Locally by Alexis C. Madrigal
The Wrong Kind of Green by Johann Hari
Garbage
Is Plasctic Recycling a Lie? by Laura Sullivan
How the Recycling Symbol Lost its Meaning by Kate Yoder
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System by K Oanh Ha
We Made Plastic. We Depend on It. Now We’re Drowning in It. by Laura Parker
The Compost King of New York by Elizabeth Royte
Disposable America by Alexis C. Madrigal
Tales of the Trash by Peter Hessler
This is Paradise by Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Ecology
The Fate of Earth by Elizabeth Kolbert
Tragedy of the Common by J. B. Mackinnon
Rethinking Extinction by Stewart Brand
The Insect Apocalypse Is Here by Brooke Jarvis
America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem by Lex Pryor
Enemy at the Grates by Josh Dzieza
Welcome to Pleistocene Park by Ross Andersen
State of the Species by Charles C. Mann
The Dawn of the Homogenocene by Charles C. Mann
Planet of Weeds by David Quammen
The War on Japanese Knotweed by Samanth SubramanianThe Sixth Extinction? by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Energy
The New Abolitionism by Christopher Hayes
Power to the People by Bill McKibben
Dismantling Sellafield by Samanth Subramanian
The Oil We Eat by Richard Manning
Scraping Bottom by Robert Kunzig
Meltdown by Wil S. Hylton
How Do We Fix It? by Robert Kunzig
We Did the ath on AI’s Energy Footprint by James O'Donnell and Casey Crownhart
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