The Climate Issue

The future is uncertain.

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story July 25, 2020 The big choices we face are here. Climate change has pushed the planet into a reordering. In this week’s climate issue, we take a look at some of the human consequences to all the chaos. The magazine and ProPublica joined with the Pulitzer Center in an effort to model, for the first time, how people will move across borders when billions of people will decide between flight and death as the land they call home becomes a barely livable hot zone. Many communities are on the brink. In Louisiana, the state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map. Monster storms in northern Argentina lob barbed hailstones, shaped like medieval flails, and along with flooding and tornadoes have displaced thousands. The Kariba Dam, which holds back the world’s largest reservoir, faces collapse and threatens an ecological disaster. The future is uncertain. In 2017, a report from the American Psychological Association included a new word, “ecoanxiety,” defined as “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” Teenagers no longer have the luxury of waiting until voting age to take a stand. As Jamie Margolin, a young climate activist put it: “There’s no guaranteed tomorrow, and I haven’t lived.” Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT OUR COVER STORY Plus features and long reads from this week’s Magazine Meridith Kohut for The New York Times   The Great Climate Migration Has Begun New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how. By Abrahm Lustgarten Holly Andres for The New York Times   The Teenagers at the End of the World Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school. By Brooke Jarvis Mitch Dobrowner for The New York Times   What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province? Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works — and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future. By Noah Gallagher Shannon Mitch Epstein for The New York Times   Destroying a Way of Life to Save Louisiana The state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map. By Nathaniel Rich Illustration by Haam Juhae   Learning From the Kariba Dam Climate change and neglect have brought the mammoth structure at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe to the brink of calamity — a crisis prefigured in the dam’s troubling colonial history. By Namwali Serpell Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Stay in touch: Follow us on Twitter (@NYTmag). Appreciated this email? Forward it to a friend and help us grow. Loved a story? Hated it? Write us a letter at magazine@nytimes.com.Did a friend forward this to you? Sign up here to get the magazine newsletter. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Check us out on Instagram, where you’ll find photography from our archives, behind-the-scenes snippets from photo shoots, interviews on how we design our covers and outtakes that don’t make it into the issue. Learn more about the experiences and costs of war. Sign up for the At War newsletter to receive stories about conflict from Times reporters and outside voices. Continue reading the main story Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. You received this email because you signed up for The New York Times Magazine from The New York Times. To stop receiving these emails, unsubscribe or manage your email preferences. Subscribe to The TimesGet The New York Times app Connect with us on: Change Your EmailPrivacy PolicyContact UsCalifornia Notices The New York Times Company. 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018