By Bill Revkin (written in 2018; published here by his son Andy) I am truly an old salt now, in my 90s, and that allows me to reflect on a remarkable span of activities on and around the sea, both cruising and racing in pleasure boats and stints in the…

Since the early days of the pandemic, I’ve hosted hundreds of episodes of Sustain What, my webcast from Columbia’s Climate School exploring constructive paths to take when complexity and consequence collide. …

I reported on the rise, triumphs, tribulations and troubles of Rajendra K. Pachauri, the longest-serving chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from 2002 through 2015 for The New York Times. Click here to explore my coverage. He died on Thursday at home in New Delhi at age 79. …

A parable about a fire-dousing bird in the Himalayas holds lessons for humans in this “Pyrocene” century — A friend and Earth Institute colleague, Brighton Kaoma, posted a Buddhist parable on Facebook that prompted me to think about the firefighters and citizen volunteers who’ve spent months trying to protect communities, and species, threatened by the massive wildfires in Australia. The Selfless Parrot

Seven years ago, my brain hinted to me that I might be having a stroke. During a rare run in the woods with my super-fit elder son on a hot Fourth of July weekend in 2011, my brain — which I hardly ever think about — gave me a strong…

This story of mine, about the rapid retreat of iconic glaciers that long defined life in the Swiss Alps, was originally published in Conde Nast Traveler in May, 1995, but is — of course — as relevant as ever. In 1818, the farmers who ranged cattle on the steep mountainsides…

I first got to know the self-described “independent scholar” Bob Kates when I was working on the special “Managing Planet Earth” issue of The New York Times Science Times section in 2002. He was in the opening section of my core story and he was the kicker, as well —…

A user-friendly, spin-free, bite-size guide to global warming drawing on three decades of reports from the National Academy of Sciences and other peer-reviewed science. By Andrew Revkin This is a summary of research pointing to a rising, long-lasting and consequential human influence on the climate system and resulting impacts on…

The Times has produced an excellent visual/story package on America’s aging dams, prompted by California’s close scrape as relentless rain from a series of atmospheric rivers strained the Oroville Dam and spillway. Here’s one factoid: By 2020, 70 percent of the dams in the United States will be more than…