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‘Don’t Look Up’ and ‘Soylent Green’: Hollywood keeps telling similar stories about the end of the world
The climate disaster movie isn’t new. It also hasn’t changed that much.
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Is it a movie, or is it a climate action campaign? Either way, Julia Fox liked it!
Read MoreTo get rural Americans involved in climate crisis, see them for who they are
Despite stereotypes, there’s really only one characteristic they all share: They hate being told what to do.
Read MoreMongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021
The world’s greatest tropical rainforest continued to come under pressure in 2021, due largely to the policies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Deforestation rates hit a 15-year-high, while fires flared up again, combining to turn Brazil’s portion of the Amazon into a net carbon source for the first time ever. But the rainforest as a […]
Did we figure out how to make good ‘climate pop’ songs in 2021?
The creep of climate anxiety onto the Top 40 has been a long time coming.
Read MoreWalking America’s car-centric hellscape
Much of America isn’t built for walking. Alex Wolfe is doing it anyway.
Read More‘Don’t Look Up’ shows how hard it is to satirize the end of the world
The climate metaphor starts to fall apart about halfway through, but that’s when the film works best.
Read MoreI might have eaten the meal of the future. It cost $270 and left me hungry.
Daniel Humm is trying to change the taste of luxury at Eleven Madison Park in New York.
Read MoreHow to save Christmas from consumerism
We start with the foundation, and work our way up.
Read MorePublic schools are failing students on climate change
A new book exposes systemic shortcomings in the way global warming is taught in America.
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