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Trump has slashed environmental protections and unraveled clean energy progress. Some of his policies may unwittingly open the door for wins the environmental movement has fought decades for.
Read about these unexpected climate wins by @jakehallwrites.bsky.social here: atmos.earth/the-accident...
Read about these unexpected climate wins by @jakehallwrites.bsky.social here: atmos.earth/the-accident...
July 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Trump has slashed environmental protections and unraveled clean energy progress. Some of his policies may unwittingly open the door for wins the environmental movement has fought decades for.
Read about these unexpected climate wins by @jakehallwrites.bsky.social here: atmos.earth/the-accident...
Read about these unexpected climate wins by @jakehallwrites.bsky.social here: atmos.earth/the-accident...
Our June digital cover story explores trans histories and futures, asking the question: How did those who came before us survive worse fires and maintain their power?
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
June 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our June digital cover story explores trans histories and futures, asking the question: How did those who came before us survive worse fires and maintain their power?
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
Funeral services like burial and cremation can have high environmental costs.
But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2.
Photos: Resting Reef
But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2.
Photos: Resting Reef
June 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Funeral services like burial and cremation can have high environmental costs.
But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2.
Photos: Resting Reef
But the British startup Resting Reef is using human and pet ashes to create reef structures that can regenerate marine biodiversity, filter water, prevent coastal erosion, and capture CO2.
Photos: Resting Reef
How would you describe what it feels like to be trans in this time, in one word?
Twenty visionaries from across the trans community share their answers with Atmos:
Twenty visionaries from across the trans community share their answers with Atmos:
June 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How would you describe what it feels like to be trans in this time, in one word?
Twenty visionaries from across the trans community share their answers with Atmos:
Twenty visionaries from across the trans community share their answers with Atmos:
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found deep-sea spiders that consume methane.
These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live.
Photos: Shana Goffredi
These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live.
Photos: Shana Goffredi
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found deep-sea spiders that consume methane.
These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live.
Photos: Shana Goffredi
These three tiny species shift our understanding of how methane cycles through the ocean and show how little we know about the deep-sea ecosystems where the spiders live.
Photos: Shana Goffredi
In nature, small actions can change everything.
In 1972, mathematician and meteorologist Ed Lorenz coined the term the "butterfly effect" to refer to the fact that extremely small perturbations can compound into dramatic differences over time.
Photographs: Stefanie Moshammer
In 1972, mathematician and meteorologist Ed Lorenz coined the term the "butterfly effect" to refer to the fact that extremely small perturbations can compound into dramatic differences over time.
Photographs: Stefanie Moshammer
June 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In nature, small actions can change everything.
In 1972, mathematician and meteorologist Ed Lorenz coined the term the "butterfly effect" to refer to the fact that extremely small perturbations can compound into dramatic differences over time.
Photographs: Stefanie Moshammer
In 1972, mathematician and meteorologist Ed Lorenz coined the term the "butterfly effect" to refer to the fact that extremely small perturbations can compound into dramatic differences over time.
Photographs: Stefanie Moshammer
Trans communities are facing a wave of legislative attacks. But trans people have always been here—and they aren’t going anywhere.
Read our June digital cover story featuring 22 trans trans leaders, artists, and organizers: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
Read our June digital cover story featuring 22 trans trans leaders, artists, and organizers: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
June 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trans communities are facing a wave of legislative attacks. But trans people have always been here—and they aren’t going anywhere.
Read our June digital cover story featuring 22 trans trans leaders, artists, and organizers: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
Read our June digital cover story featuring 22 trans trans leaders, artists, and organizers: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
More than five million people gathered at over 2,100 rallies across the U.S. this weekend to protest against President Donald Trump's abuses of power and civil rights violations, including recent ICE raids.
Photos: Reuters
Photos: Reuters
June 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
More than five million people gathered at over 2,100 rallies across the U.S. this weekend to protest against President Donald Trump's abuses of power and civil rights violations, including recent ICE raids.
Photos: Reuters
Photos: Reuters
The onslaught trans people are facing today is nothing new—throughout time, trans people have been creating means to grow from barren soil.
“I feel more motivated than anything,” said Them editor-in-chief Fran Tirado.
Read our June digital cover story here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
“I feel more motivated than anything,” said Them editor-in-chief Fran Tirado.
Read our June digital cover story here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
June 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The onslaught trans people are facing today is nothing new—throughout time, trans people have been creating means to grow from barren soil.
“I feel more motivated than anything,” said Them editor-in-chief Fran Tirado.
Read our June digital cover story here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
“I feel more motivated than anything,” said Them editor-in-chief Fran Tirado.
Read our June digital cover story here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
"Intersex people existed in Ancient Greece. Trans people existed in Ancient Greece. At the dawn of our civilization, it’s carved in marble."
For our June cover story, world-renowned drag queen Jinx Monsoon explores the history of trans people and the magic of liberation: atmos.earth/jinkx-monsoo...
For our June cover story, world-renowned drag queen Jinx Monsoon explores the history of trans people and the magic of liberation: atmos.earth/jinkx-monsoo...
June 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Intersex people existed in Ancient Greece. Trans people existed in Ancient Greece. At the dawn of our civilization, it’s carved in marble."
For our June cover story, world-renowned drag queen Jinx Monsoon explores the history of trans people and the magic of liberation: atmos.earth/jinkx-monsoo...
For our June cover story, world-renowned drag queen Jinx Monsoon explores the history of trans people and the magic of liberation: atmos.earth/jinkx-monsoo...
New maps show reforesting areas across the globe could remove 1.5bn tonnes of CO2 a year without harming people or wildlife.
Reforestation opportunity maps like this are essential as regrowing trees remains a cost-effective option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Graphic: @theguardian.com
Reforestation opportunity maps like this are essential as regrowing trees remains a cost-effective option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Graphic: @theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
New maps show reforesting areas across the globe could remove 1.5bn tonnes of CO2 a year without harming people or wildlife.
Reforestation opportunity maps like this are essential as regrowing trees remains a cost-effective option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Graphic: @theguardian.com
Reforestation opportunity maps like this are essential as regrowing trees remains a cost-effective option for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Graphic: @theguardian.com
“Oh, trans people of now, what fruit will you bear?”
For our June digital cover, writer @raquelwillis.com pens an homage to trans histories and futures: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
For our June digital cover, writer @raquelwillis.com pens an homage to trans histories and futures: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
June 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Oh, trans people of now, what fruit will you bear?”
For our June digital cover, writer @raquelwillis.com pens an homage to trans histories and futures: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
For our June digital cover, writer @raquelwillis.com pens an homage to trans histories and futures: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
An ode to trans lives—then, now, always.
For our June digital cover, 22 trans leaders, artists, and organizers came together to share the seeds they are planting with @raquelwillis.com and form a tree of life with photographer Camila Falquez.
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
For our June digital cover, 22 trans leaders, artists, and organizers came together to share the seeds they are planting with @raquelwillis.com and form a tree of life with photographer Camila Falquez.
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
June 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
An ode to trans lives—then, now, always.
For our June digital cover, 22 trans leaders, artists, and organizers came together to share the seeds they are planting with @raquelwillis.com and form a tree of life with photographer Camila Falquez.
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
For our June digital cover, 22 trans leaders, artists, and organizers came together to share the seeds they are planting with @raquelwillis.com and form a tree of life with photographer Camila Falquez.
Read more here: atmos.earth/the-fruits-w...
“Intimacy will save us.”
In the season finale of The Nature Of podcast, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins @willowonearth.bsky.social for a powerful conversation about witnessing extinction and choosing hope.
Listen to the full episode here: atmos.earth/podcast/ami-...
In the season finale of The Nature Of podcast, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins @willowonearth.bsky.social for a powerful conversation about witnessing extinction and choosing hope.
Listen to the full episode here: atmos.earth/podcast/ami-...
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“Intimacy will save us.”
In the season finale of The Nature Of podcast, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins @willowonearth.bsky.social for a powerful conversation about witnessing extinction and choosing hope.
Listen to the full episode here: atmos.earth/podcast/ami-...
In the season finale of The Nature Of podcast, award-winning photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale joins @willowonearth.bsky.social for a powerful conversation about witnessing extinction and choosing hope.
Listen to the full episode here: atmos.earth/podcast/ami-...
The Manu Forest is a UNESCO-protected biodiversity hotspot teeming with different plant, fungi, and animal species in southeastern Peru.
Photographs: Arianna Lago
Photographs: Arianna Lago
June 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Manu Forest is a UNESCO-protected biodiversity hotspot teeming with different plant, fungi, and animal species in southeastern Peru.
Photographs: Arianna Lago
Photographs: Arianna Lago
“Nature always finds its way, as do queer people. We’ve always been here: we are part of nature and we connect with her in a very deep and magical way.”
—Mina Serrano
Photographs: Ben Toms
—Mina Serrano
Photographs: Ben Toms
June 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“Nature always finds its way, as do queer people. We’ve always been here: we are part of nature and we connect with her in a very deep and magical way.”
—Mina Serrano
Photographs: Ben Toms
—Mina Serrano
Photographs: Ben Toms
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is one of 12 people sailing to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid amid the ongoing genocide and forced starvation of the Palestinian people.
“No matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said.
Video: NBC News
“No matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said.
Video: NBC News
June 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is one of 12 people sailing to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid amid the ongoing genocide and forced starvation of the Palestinian people.
“No matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said.
Video: NBC News
“No matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying,” Thunberg said.
Video: NBC News
The practice of facial tattooing, which was once universal among girls before puberty among the the Li people of Hainan Island, disappeared after it was outlawed.
Those patterns once inked into skin endure today as women weave them into fabric. Read more here: atmos.earth/they-once-ta...
Those patterns once inked into skin endure today as women weave them into fabric. Read more here: atmos.earth/they-once-ta...
June 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The practice of facial tattooing, which was once universal among girls before puberty among the the Li people of Hainan Island, disappeared after it was outlawed.
Those patterns once inked into skin endure today as women weave them into fabric. Read more here: atmos.earth/they-once-ta...
Those patterns once inked into skin endure today as women weave them into fabric. Read more here: atmos.earth/they-once-ta...
Sri Lanka’s dry zone forests are home to Asian elephants and some of the largest waste dumping sites in the country. Elephants will visit these sites regularly, looking for food.
Photograph: Lakshitha Karunarathna, 2025 Environmental Photography Award runner-up
Photograph: Lakshitha Karunarathna, 2025 Environmental Photography Award runner-up
May 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Sri Lanka’s dry zone forests are home to Asian elephants and some of the largest waste dumping sites in the country. Elephants will visit these sites regularly, looking for food.
Photograph: Lakshitha Karunarathna, 2025 Environmental Photography Award runner-up
Photograph: Lakshitha Karunarathna, 2025 Environmental Photography Award runner-up
Across continents and centuries, Indigenous peoples have inscribed their identities onto their bodies.
Colonization attempted to sever these ties, but Indigenous tattoo artists today are reclaiming the tradition. Read more here by Nina Gualinga: atmos.earth/the-land-eng...
Colonization attempted to sever these ties, but Indigenous tattoo artists today are reclaiming the tradition. Read more here by Nina Gualinga: atmos.earth/the-land-eng...
May 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Across continents and centuries, Indigenous peoples have inscribed their identities onto their bodies.
Colonization attempted to sever these ties, but Indigenous tattoo artists today are reclaiming the tradition. Read more here by Nina Gualinga: atmos.earth/the-land-eng...
Colonization attempted to sever these ties, but Indigenous tattoo artists today are reclaiming the tradition. Read more here by Nina Gualinga: atmos.earth/the-land-eng...
Congestion pricing in New York City just went into effect in January, but the benefits are already apparent.
Transit ridership is up, car crash injuries have declined, and there are fewer traffic noise complaints both in and out of the congestion pricing zone.
Graphic: The New York Times
Transit ridership is up, car crash injuries have declined, and there are fewer traffic noise complaints both in and out of the congestion pricing zone.
Graphic: The New York Times
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Congestion pricing in New York City just went into effect in January, but the benefits are already apparent.
Transit ridership is up, car crash injuries have declined, and there are fewer traffic noise complaints both in and out of the congestion pricing zone.
Graphic: The New York Times
Transit ridership is up, car crash injuries have declined, and there are fewer traffic noise complaints both in and out of the congestion pricing zone.
Graphic: The New York Times
Just as growth is part of nature, so too is rest.
Photographs: Yana Wernicke
Photographs: Yana Wernicke
May 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just as growth is part of nature, so too is rest.
Photographs: Yana Wernicke
Photographs: Yana Wernicke
The Roots of Imagination project explores Togolese hairdressing techniques from the 20th century that risk being forgotten since the introduction of mesh braiding hair and chemical straighteners.
Photographs: Malaika Nabila and Delali Ayivi
Hair: Bataka Bamana (Patron Aimé)
Photographs: Malaika Nabila and Delali Ayivi
Hair: Bataka Bamana (Patron Aimé)
May 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Roots of Imagination project explores Togolese hairdressing techniques from the 20th century that risk being forgotten since the introduction of mesh braiding hair and chemical straighteners.
Photographs: Malaika Nabila and Delali Ayivi
Hair: Bataka Bamana (Patron Aimé)
Photographs: Malaika Nabila and Delali Ayivi
Hair: Bataka Bamana (Patron Aimé)
As the National Park Service prepares for its busiest season, the Trump administration reportedly rescinded job offers for around 2,000 seasonal hires.
Labor news outlet More Perfect Union has launched billboards stressing the reality parks are facing.
Photographs: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Labor news outlet More Perfect Union has launched billboards stressing the reality parks are facing.
Photographs: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
As the National Park Service prepares for its busiest season, the Trump administration reportedly rescinded job offers for around 2,000 seasonal hires.
Labor news outlet More Perfect Union has launched billboards stressing the reality parks are facing.
Photographs: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Labor news outlet More Perfect Union has launched billboards stressing the reality parks are facing.
Photographs: @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The ocean produces 50 percent of the oxygen we need, absorbs 25 percent of all carbon emissions, and captures 90 percent of the heat generated by emissions
We owe everything to our oceans.
Photographs: Vivek Vadoliya
We owe everything to our oceans.
Photographs: Vivek Vadoliya
May 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The ocean produces 50 percent of the oxygen we need, absorbs 25 percent of all carbon emissions, and captures 90 percent of the heat generated by emissions
We owe everything to our oceans.
Photographs: Vivek Vadoliya
We owe everything to our oceans.
Photographs: Vivek Vadoliya