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Tim Schafer and Elijah Wood Discuss the Making of ‘Broken Age’
The designer and actor tell us about the very modern creation of an old-fashioned adventure.
'The Inception of Zombie Wars,' by Aleksandar Hemon
Writing is nothing if not carrying the hopeless, backbreaking burden of decisions devoid of consequences.
Shane Smith on the Need to Protect the Earth from Environmental Catastrophe
It's increasingly clear to me that the environment touches every single human on Earth – perhaps in different ways, but when the environment is hurting we all suffer.
We’ve Damaged the Planet So Badly It’s Entering a New Epoch
Welcome to the Anthropocene, a.k.a. the Age of Man, a.k.a. we're now in charge of Earth and we better take better care of it.
Writers, Scientists and Climate Experts Discuss How to Save the World from Climate Change
Should we have fewer kids? Improve our farming techniques? Reform the energy market? Or just get better at helping one another?
Photos of the People in the Path of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Some view it as their savior, others as a project that will hasten their demise.
Trucks and Children Are Sucking the Beaches of Morocco Dry
A critical ingredient in concrete, glass and microchips, sand is a hot commodity – and in Morocco, illegal extraction costs the government $1.1 billion in unpaid taxes.
Getting Back to Basics at a Primitivist School
At ROOTS, you can learn how to make a longbow the way our premodern ancestors did – but can you learn how to live?
The Baffling, Gruesome Plague That Is Causing Sea Stars to Tear Themselves to Pieces
"They twisted their arms together," a marine biologist said, "and they'd pull and pull and pull, until one of them came off... It was horrific."