Journalist Dahr Jamail stresses the severity of the climate crisis—and asks everyone to start acting like it. Interview with the Cairo Review of Global Affairs about the COP-26.
Living in a World in Which Nature Has Already Lost
Review of Second Nature, by Nathaniel Rich, for the New York Times Book Review. Read the review here.
Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
In this excerpt from the new anthology “A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times,” journalist Dahr Jamail describes how Macy and her work helped him survive profound war trauma and climate grief. Read the article here in YES! Magazine.
New York Times reviews The End of Ice
The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth Read the review here.
Could COVID-19 Spell the End of the Fracking Industry as We Know It?
It has always been known that the oil and gas industry only survives by way of debt financing. Fracking is capital intensive, and very few companies involved ever actually even turn a profit in excess of the cost of capital. Instead, they have always operated by dependency on cheap money from Wall Street banks to
2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis
The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next. Read the full story at The Nation here.
End of Ice Longlisted for PEN Literary Award
PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD For a book that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of the physical or biological sciences and communicates complex scientific concepts to a lay audience.
The Ten Best Science Books of 2019
The End of Ice makes The Smithsonian’s Top Ten Science Books of 2019.
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, Dealing With Climate PTSD
Read the full essay for TomDispatch.com of my recent trip to Alaska here.
Last Born in the Wilderness Interview, Transitions
One of the most important interviews I have ever done. Listen to it here.