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By Andrew Revkin

Where Would You Set the Planetary 'Doomsday Clock' and What's One Way to Turn it Back?

Exploring questions on the 75th year since a group of peace-loving scientists and a designer made an iconic symbol and ritual

Jan 20

A Tonga Eruption and Tsunami Show We Live on a Connected Planet in a Constant State of Creation, Destruction and Risk

Thanks for subscribing to my dispatches if you can (always free). I'll always try to be useful.

Jan 15

After Reporting on Global Warming for 18 years, from the Burning Amazon to North Pole ice, I Stumbled into Far Scarier Science

My journey into the troubling behavioral and social science explaining why humans "don't look up" when it comes to massive, slow-moving, divisive risks

Jan 14

A Jaguar's "Laugh" and a Magical Rain Forest Memory

One of the regular wildlife news nuggets distributed to the press by the Wildlife Conservation Society caught my eye earlier today and, amid my other work, kept poking at me. I realized it was because the video in the release took me back to one of the most magical moments I've ever had as a journalist.

Jan 12

When Wildfire Comes to Town – Amid the Marshall Fire’s Urban Ashes, Hints of a Less Combustible Future

An interview with a homeowner whose block survived while others burned reinforces longstanding advice from experts on living in fire-prone landscapes.

Jan 10

Building Forward Safer Where Communities Grow Into Wildfire Danger Zones

Boulder County, Colorado, is just the latest of a growing string of communities devastated when fires that might have started "wild" explode into urban infernos.

Jan 5

When Crises Collide - Strategies for Resilience Amid Confounding Threats, from Viruses to Firestorms

Wider lessons emerge through a moment captured at a Colorado hospital facing the Omicron surge and a flash firestorm

Jan 3

Don't Look Now, But an Asteroid or Comet Catastrophe is Not Like the Climate Crisis

As Leonardo DiCaprio said, the best impact of "Don't Look Up" would be to spark a climate conversation. That is happening, big-time!

Dec 31, 2021

Two Conservation Champions, E.O. Wilson and Tom Lovejoy, are Gone, But a Global Array of Successors is Emerging

Each biologist helped reveal and convey the splendid diversity of living things and the responsibility facing one sapient species, ours, to conserve that which sustains our spirits and societies.

Dec 29, 2021

With Only Seven or so Vaquita Porpoises Left on Earth, Mexico Abets Extinction by Allowing a Net Surge

Illegal nets vastly outnumber critically endangered vaquitas in Mexico's fictional "zero tolerance" refuge for the world's tiniest cetacean

Dec 23, 2021

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