August 2022

how close the Amazon forest is to a tipping point of “savannization” and the consequences of that for the maintenance of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

By Frida Berrigan , August 23, 2022, Waging Nonviolence My beach reading stack was less whodunits and guilty pleasures and more of a Climate Change 101 survey course. But in this summer of widespread drought, heatwaves melting roads , super storm events, a deadlocked international climate meeting, the protracted political saga of the senator in Big Coal’s back pocket, and lots of other top-of-the-fold climate catastrophe news, my deep dive was in the service of survival and wide-eyed hope...

By Hannah Seo, Illustration: María Medem, The New York Times, August 19, 2022 Tens of millions of people across the United States have been enduring heat wave after heat wave this summer, in what feels like an unrelenting succession of humid days and scorching temperatures. While there’s no denying that extreme heat and humidity can be physically uncomfortable, research suggests that such conditions can be trying on your psychological well-being, too. “We see across the whole spectrum of...