What to Read to Wrap Your Head Around the Climate Crisis
These visceral reported accounts will help readers better understand the new ecological status quo.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic Six Books About Winter as It Once Was
These titles remind us of the season’s long-established joys and its necessary quiet, even as the climate changes.
Illustration by The Atlantic Seven Books Where the Setting Exposes the Characters
Unchanging environments are a useful narrative tool to show readers just how much a protagonist has grown.
Getty; Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction
Planetary warming is no longer the sole province of “climate fiction.” It’s creeping into all kinds of writing.
A Quiet Rise in Wildland-Firefighter Suicides
America’s firefighting community is grappling with a troubling trend amid brutal fire seasons.
Jim Urquhart / Reuters Making a More Modern Diaphragm
How the new, very purple “Caya” is trying to make an old-fashioned birth-control option relevant again
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