Wish You’d Been Here

Elegy for a River

By David Trilling March 4, 2024

In so many ways, human behavior is emptying the Amu Darya.

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Still Life

Photo by Veejay Villafranca, text by Lian Sing September 5, 2023

They say we are sinking, but the sea has spat out the bones of our villages a thousand and one times.

Climate & Environment

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Terms of Inheritance

By Ephrem Sebatigita, as told to Lionel Ntasano August 7, 2023

My grandfather started one of the first coffee farms in Burundi. Will climate change leave any trees for my grandson?

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Spring Without Flowers

By Rishu Nigam June 5, 2023

Spring blossoms have been at the center of this Himalayan village's spiritual life. What happens when they arrive too early?

Climate & Environment

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When the Rain Came

By Doug Van Gundy May 1, 2023

Misery has a long reach when unprecedented flooding comes to the Appalachians.

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The End of Ice

By Amy Sacka April 5, 2023

We don’t need to talk much, because the ice speaks for us. What happens when it melts?

Climate & Environment