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In her latest book, Elizabeth Kolbert asks: could some environmental fixes be worse than the problems?

Maya Lin Jesse Frohman and courtesy of the artist An immersive installation that visualises the bleak effects of climate change by the US artist and environmental activist Maya Lin, which was slated to open in June last year, will open at Madison Square Park in New York this spring. The work was postponed in the “earliest weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, when there was extreme uncertainty” around possible restrictions on public gatherings, and “in consideration of staff, the artist’s team, the installation crew and park-goers”, says Brooke Kamin Rapaport, th...

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Not much more than a dozen pages into The Blade Between, the protagonist, Ronan Szepessy, thinks to himself, "What the hell happened to Hudson?" What the hell happened to Hudson, indeed. That could well be an alternative title for Sam J. Miller's terrific new novel. Substitute the name of any large town or small city (or big city?) in America for "Hudson" in that sentence, and much (but certainly not all) in Miller's gripping story will ring true. The question remains, just who is besieging Hudson? Hipster invaders? Greedy developers? Fancy shop owners? Or perhaps the disturbed, tortu...

Elizabeth Kolbert. (Photo by John Kleiner) To say that Earth is in crisis is an understatement. “Atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication—these are just some of the by-products of our species’s success,” journalist Elizabeth Kolbert warns us about in her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. Kolbert has been studying the consequences of humanity’s impact on Earth for decades as a contributor to The New Yorker and as the author of such books as the 2015 Pulitzer Prize–winning The Six...