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No one can make Rihanna feel like she’s the only girl in the world if there’s no world to live in — and more importantly, the communities suffering the most from the climate crisis don’t deserve to feel as though they’re alone in their fight for change. As part of …

As smoke lifts for East Coast cities this weekend, take a deep breath. And then hold it, because this might happen again. Parts of Canada and the eastern United States are at risk for an unusually active fire season this summer. So this week’s great eastern smoke-out might be just …

Wildfires raging in Canada shrouded the East Coast in smoke this week, leading to hazardous air quality that has led cities to cancel outdoor events. The unprecedented rash of fires is a clear result of climate change, but nothing — not even a post-apocalyptic orange tint or the ever-present smell …

“We found love in a hopeless place,” Rihanna famously sang. And there’s nowhere quite as hopeless as the anthropocene — our current geological era, in which humans have begun to have an adverse impact on Earth’s climate. Fatalism about the future of our planet can certainly kill the mood, but, …

G race Gibson-Snyder takes a sip of chai from her reusable mug in the crowded coffee shop. She grew up here in Missoula, she says, “with a love of nature untainted by worry.” Every year on her birthday, her family took her to Yellowstone to hike and backpack. She rafted …

T his story is part of thePulitzerCenter’s nationwideConnected Coastlinesreporting initiative. ROSINA PHILIPPE EXPERTLY steers a small metal boat through the brackish bayou. It’s a chilly February afternoon in Louisiana, and Philippe, an elder of the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe, is bundled up in a camouflage hoodie. She’s lived here in the Grand …

T he climate crisis is many things: a test of whether we can overcome the vast gulfs between the Global North and the Global South, a challenge to a political system geared toward short-term thinking, a lens that magnifies past injustice and future deprivation. But it’s also, at heart, a …

A T THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land is so flat that I could see the top of ReconAfrica’s drill rig when we were about a mile away. ReconAfrica is a small Canadian oil-and-gas-exploration company that claimed to have discovered an oil-and-gas basin rivaling anything …

“We need to imagine a different version of our future,” says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The photogenic Danish actor from Game of Thrones and the upcoming Apple TV+ series The Last Thing He Told Me is set to feature in a new Bloomberg Originals series, Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal. An Optimist’s …

Climate change is a global problem that requires cooperation between all nations. That’s why today more than 30 newspapers and media organizations in more than 20 countries have taken a common view about what needs to be done. Time is running out. Rather than getting out of fossil fuels and …