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

Fixing our dysfunctional food system as the planet warms will be very hard. But one easy thing is staring us right in the face.

At the end of a study that gave people induction stoves to try, not a single person wanted their gas stove back.

Google Maps’s air quality indicators and wildfire warnings suggest one approach to a warming world. It’s grim.

Let’s put lawyers, public relations consultants, and all the other well-paid white-collar workers who support the fossil fuel industry on notice: Find different clients.

The point of biking or going vegan isn’t the impact of a single person’s choice. It’s about throwing everything we’ve got at a problem that feels overwhelming.

It makes sense to be wary of corporate puff pieces. But there are genuine victories to celebrate, often at the local or international level. We need those stories as fuel for the fight.

On both Covid precautions and climate ethics, our lack of social consensus creates stress. But it’s also an opportunity to hone our powers of persuasion.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

For young people, climate politics are understandably personal.

Only persistence can bring sweeping change. But that sweeping change sometimes comes sooner than you expect.

It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

Huge numbers of young people say they’re hesitant to have kids because of climate change.

Climate change is already devastating the young, who feel abandoned by their governments and earlier generations.

Eating meat just one day a week could cut emissions, stave off climate despair, and help start a movement.

Will my son grow up with monarch butterflies?

As heat, wildfires, and freak weather patterns transform familiar surroundings, can hikers and runners still rely on their instincts?

Greece’s wildfires are a reminder that the failure to act is first a failure of imagination.

Warnings about the catastrophes ahead need to name the enemy and give people something to do.

We can still avoid total catastrophe. But eventually kids will realize that we’re not on course to do that.