Heat Index
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Our relationship to the natural world is shaped by everything going on around us—and we all experience it differently. Heat Index is our in-the-moment, op-ed writing on what is happening right now.
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Bio Mass Index
If you have been living in the Midwest or on the East Coast during Winter 2026, I am sorry for your hard winter but also extremely envious. The West is suffering the exact opposite. Weather forecasters for the week of March 14–21 post statements like “Something never seen before” when referring to the one-hundred-degree temperatures.
The Long and the Short of It: <em>Of Time and Trump and Tapestries</em>
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You can say what you want about Donald Trump (and I will), but the old man has energy. “Flooding the zone” has famously been the strategy of his second term, with a new crisis-inducing edict coming every day, sometimes every hour. Consider this: The blustering threat to take Greenland, by force if necessary, which sent the world into red alert, happened barely a month ago. In any other time that would have been the shocking and possibly defining event of an administration. Here it is just another day at the office. Ho-hum.