The Great Pumpkin Shortage Is Coming
Spooky weather patterns are disrupting specialty crops.
The Impeccable Timing of ‘This Changes Everything’
The new film’s creators aim to spark conversations about global warming.
World Capital of Weather Wimps
When the going gets cold, make the most of it.
Lessons of Sandy
Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that a natural disaster could quickly, if temporarily, downgrade a rich country to third-world status.
This Week in OtherWords: After the Superstorm
OtherWords is taking stock of the many ways in which Sandy may prove a teachable moment.
How Sandy Reveals the GDP’s Twisted Logic
Extreme weather doesn’t boost the economy.
Hurricane Sandy’s Wakeup Call
Sandy is only the latest and most devastating incident in a pattern of extreme weather that’s become impossible to ignore.
Rebuilding Resilience
We have to stop subsidizing people to live in harm’s way.
Shivering in the Land of Climate Denial
If Wall Street doesn’t get Mother Nature’s hint, it will become the entire world’s tragedy.
Sandy Trumps Romney’s Climate Joke
Why isn’t anyone laughing anymore?
On Not Scaring Ourselves to Death: Moving Beyond the Adrenaline Rush of a Good Storm to an Energy Revolution
Can we grow up and out of scaring ourselves like this?
The Drought Lottery
Our lawmakers should spend the next month figuring out how to reduce our $16 trillion debt instead of showering special interests with even more wasteful subsidies that have nothing to do with the drought.
Avoiding a 21st-Century Dust Bowl
We need a Farm Bill that plants the seeds of resilience.
Why We Need the Food from Family Farms Act
Had Congress heeded our advice, farmers and taxpayers would be far better able to deal with a lack of grain, grass, and water from the drought.
Smoldering Planet
Colorado’s wildfires and the record heat waves should sober up some climate change doubters.