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A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice

Mr. Sustainability

Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas. That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route.

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Interview: Elizabeth Kolbert on why we’ll never stop messing with nature

Grist

These are some of the scenes from Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Under a White Sky , a global exploration of the ways that humanity is attempting to engineer, fix, or reroute the course of nature in a climate-changed world. Under a White Sky covers slightly different ground.

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A world of equal weight: How an Aboriginal family’s battle with fossil fuels started with a walk

Grist

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes. When at last he grew satisfied, he stopped roaming and launched himself into the sky. Richard Woldendorp.