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Earlier this year, Rolling Stone contributing editor and environmental journalist Jeff Goodell went on an extraordinary journey to Antarctica to learn how climate change is irrevocably changing our planet. Goodell traveled aboard the Nathanial B. Palmership for a two-month journey to the world’s coldest locations — Western Antarctica and the …

Politics and moral courage don’t mix well. They both allow for compromise, but in many instances, their goals are in complete opposition. I won’t argue against representative democracy, but one unfortunate consequence of it is that it does generally require elected officials to be liked by the people who employ …

Tropical depression Imelda has been a killer storm — leaving at least two dead and hundreds more in need of rescue. It has dropped as much as three feet of rain on some communities in Texas, inundating the greater Houston area, and flooding areas that have only recently recovered from …

This story originally appeared in Grist. It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It was early in the morning last Thursday, and Jonathan Butler was standing on …

On Monday, at about 3 p.m., the sky in Sao Paulo turned dark. As rain began to fall in South America’s largest city, Leandro Matozo, a television reporter who lives on the city’s east side, noticed that the rain pooling in his mother’s garden was filled with soot. He filled …

This story was originallypublished byGristand appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration. California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state. …

This is the eighth dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who is in Antarcticainvestigatingthe effect ofclimate changeon Thwaites Glacier. Rob Larter was 23 when he made his first visit to Antarctica. The son of a public health inspector and a secondary-school teacher, Larter grew up in the gentle green …

It’s often argued that climate change is not a technological or engineering problem, it is a political problem. And it’s true. We have all the technology we need to power the world with renewables and stave off the worst of climate chaos. What we lackis the political will to take …