It's too late: we're doomed. Or close to it. The greenhouse gases we've emitted by burning fossil fuels have changed the climate so much already, and loaded the atmosphere with so much carbon dioxide ...

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Imagine a secret society, code name "Avatar 2154," based on the date of the "War of 2154" between the "Sec-Ops" armies from "Eaarth," funded by the "Resources ...

According to Bill McKibben, the respected environmentalist and author of the pioneering “End of Nature,” the planet Earth, as we know it, is already dead. Over a million square miles of the Arctic ice ...

There ought to be a word, probably in German, for a book that makes the reader boil over with life-­changing eco-enthusiasm only to find himself, a month later, reverting to his old Hummer-­driving, ...

My newspaper colleague Mike Weilbacher mentioned in a column in March Bill McKibben’s most recent book, “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.” McKibben persuades that, given the immense change ...

No, it’s not a typo. McKibben spells it “Eaarth” to emphasize that we are not living on the same planet as we used to, thus its new name. It’s quite a sobering idea, but one you’ll find almost ...

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Bill McKibben has always struck me as a puritanical figure who needs to lighten up a bit. But he's a damn good New England writer and a "real deal" environmental activist. He wrote about climate ...

As a girl, I read the Little House on the Prairie series and dreamed of a time when people cooked over an open fire and gave handmade gifts. As an adult, I actually hoped that Y2K would bring a change ...

The world as we know it has ended forever: that's the melancholy message of this nonetheless cautiously optimistic assessment of the planet's future by McKibben, whose The End of Nature first warned ...