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Photographer Darren Vargas Visits Death Valley During the Superbloom After nearly a decade, Vargas traces the brief, improbable season when one of the harshest landscapes in North America is remade by color.

Photography Science & Nature

Life Imitates Life in the Evolutionary Marvel of Mimicry Nature is a panoply of mirrors and relational identities, life imitating itself through iteration and imitation.

The Overview Deep Ecology

Artist Dustin Yellin on What It Means to Be Human The globally acclaimed painter, sculptor, and collagist explores consciousness, deep time, and building a culture of connection.

The Long View Changemakers

FEMA in the Crosshairs as Climate Disasters Worsen Extreme weather events are growing more frequent and intense. Will FEMA be around to help affected communities?

The Understory Democracy

Volume 12: Pollinate

A collection of bold ideas and imaginative solutions for a thriving future. In an era defined by urgency and possibility, our planet depends on visions for progress that are actionable, daring, and transformative. Because a single idea, like a grain of pollen, can travel great distances—and catalyze new life.

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How Gender Stereotypes Got Written Into Evolution Feminist biologists have been challenging a flawed fruit-fly experiment that helped harden Victorian stereotypes about sex.

Science & Nature Identity & Community

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Reweaving the Rainbow: Science, Poetry, and the Magic of Nature How lucky are we to have science to understand how our world works, and poetry to capture how it feels?

The Overview Deep Ecology

A small green plant grows in the foreground of a power plant's cooling stack.

Surging Energy Demand Helps Fuel Trump’s Love Affair With Coal Keeping coal plants online has become the U.S. grid’s unofficial insurance policy, even as their emissions exacerbate extreme weather.

The Understory Democracy

The Fastest Way to Decarbonize Cities Might Be Growing Them Bio-based replacements for steel, concrete, and fiberglass have massive implications for finally decarbonizing the construction industry.

Climate Solutions Science & Nature

Podcast Episode 21

Giuliana Furci Is Your Guide to the Enchanting World of Fungi

The renowned mycologist reflects on the fungi that connect forests, turn death into life, and quietly sustain the world we…

Photographer Ana Flores Documents a Masked Devil Dance on Peru’s Northern Coast The masked devotional dance forms part of the procession of the Virgin of Candelaria del Socorro.

Photography Identity & Community

The Inflorescent Self: Botanical Notes on Becoming Blooming isn’t a singular act but a choreography of time, environment, and relationship—where what appears whole is often a constellation.

The Overview Deep Ecology

In Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Bedouin Life Is Guided by Generations of Mountain Knowledge In Kotn’s new campaign, Tefnut, filmmaker Hussein Mardini documents a young Bedouin man’s movement through the mountains of South Sinai.

Ethical Fashion Identity & Community

Oscar-Winner Steve McQueen on the Flowers That Outlived Empire The 12 Years a Slave director speaks with Atmos about his latest book, Bounty.

Art & Culture Science & Nature

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How Climate Change Is Redrawing the World’s Political Map Climate diplomacy is now central to foreign policy and global security.

The Understory Democracy

Dark smoke floats from a volcano after an eruption.

How Chance Birthed Our Improbable World The unlikely chain of cosmic events that made Earth, life, and our awareness of it possible.

The Overview Deep Ecology

The War With Iran Is Already About Energy The conflict is covered in oil with long-term environmental impacts.

The Understory Democracy

Bog Fashion: The Designers Collaborating with Swamps and Soil Working with peatland water, moss, clay, and time, a new generation of designers embraces irregular dyeing and decay.

Ethical Fashion

Earth Month

Earth Month is a reminder that our relationship with the planet is ongoing—rooted in care, responsibility, and the shared work of sustaining a livable world.

Of the Earth The Earth is not a day or a month, it's something we belong to. Now more than ever, it needs our love—and protection.

The Overview

A Future Without Environmentalism Is the Goal As Earth day approaches, The Overview envisions a future in which no one is an environmentalist because everyone is.

The Overview Deep Ecology

Future Earth Day Happy Earth Day! Join Atmos and Future Earth and share your resolution on social media with the hashtag #FutureEarthDay.

Anthropocene

Activist Julia Butterfly Hill in the Luna tree protesting deforestation by Shaun Walker

The Disease of Disconnect In an essay for Atmos, Julia Butterfly Hill reflects on the fight that lies ahead—and what's missing from our connection to the Earth.

Anthropocene Deep Ecology

Restore Our Earth An Earth Day ode to restoration featuring eco heroes Leah Thomas, Suzanne Simard, Helena Gualinga, Pattie Gonia, Bonnie Wright, and more.

Changemakers

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Respect Your Mother As we face the climate crisis that humanity has wrought, we must remember that we are nothing in the face of her natural forces.

Indigeneity Science & Nature

How Rap Duo EARTHGANG Is Educating Kids On Land Conservation & Inner-City Gardens Atlanta rap duo EARTHGANG are expanding their sustainability efforts beyond music and giving back to the Southwest Atlanta community.

Environmental Justice Changemakers

Earth Month

Earth Month is a reminder that our relationship with the planet is ongoing—rooted in care, responsibility, and the shared work of sustaining a livable world.