We live in a world of illusion that is collapsing around our ears. Every day that passes, our planet makes it more and more clear: the way we are living now cannot last and we have to find something new. In this edition of Dreamland, Whitley takes us in anread more
Researchers at Purdue University have developed the whitest paint ever produced, capable of reflecting more than 98 percent of the light that strikes it, a quality that could reduce the need for air conditioning for buildings coated in the brilliant pigment. But perhaps even more ambitiously, another researcher calculates thatread more
James Hansen, a climate scientist that first sounded the alarm on global warming to the U.S. Congress in 1988 is saying that the ongoing climate crisis is a “new climate frontier” that will see conditions, already hotter than anything seen in the last million years, “get worse before they get better;”read more
As I write this, a massive heat wave stretches across the western three-quarters of the United States, forest fires rage in central Canada, a major flooding event is striking the U.S. Northeast and southern and central Europe are enduring unprecedented heat waves. This comes after a vicious tornado season inread more