Eleanor Cummins

@elliepses

Can we learn to think fast enough to survive our dangerously hot world?

Indoor spaces contain, on average, higher concentrations of pollution than outdoor air in communities across the U.S.

What explains the rise of noise complaints and get-off-my-lawn violence in America? Research points to one intriguing possibility.

Why memoirs of sickness and elusive diagnosis increasingly read like detective stories

A burned-out journalist searches for meaning at a sensory deprivation party and in Jenny Odell’s new book on reconceptualizing time.

Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis.

A major paper debunking the “serotonin hypothesis” has a lot of people agitated. But leaving more room for nuance in our discussions about mental health is the right idea.

If media outlets can’t find a better way of delivering bad news, people will tune out.

Disaster preparedness doesn’t need to be right-wing and individualistic. It does, however, need to be paired with policy.

The self-immolation of an environmental activist in Washington, D.C., revives an uncomfortable debate over the practice—and how we should talk about it.

Can we preserve ancient monuments without losing sight of what global warming is doing to humans living today?

Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.

It’s out of fashion in the United States. But activists from India to Ecuador show how feminist environmentalism could be used to build solidarity in the face of the climate crisis.

This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

Americans haven’t thought seriously about the threat of nuclear war in a long time. Now, as climate change accelerates, the peril and promise of nuclear technology feels more fraught than ever.

Americans have heard conflicting advice from various public health agencies during this pandemic. The solution begins with local reform.

Wastewater is a crucial epidemiological tool for tracking Covid-19. It’s only going to get more important as climate change accelerates.

They’re responsible for a massive undercounting of Covid deaths in America. But that’s just the latest reason to get rid of this poorly regulated, overly politicized, and utterly unscientific relic of the colonial era.

As critics debate Adam McKay’s latest film, perhaps the better question is where movies about climate change should go from here.

The data we have suggests a connection—and the problem may be growing.