Newsletter www.quantamagazine.org Forests emerge as a major overlooked climate factor When Abigail Swann started her career in the mid-2000s, she was one of just a handful of scientists exploring a potentially radical notion: that the green plants living on Earth's surface could have a major influence on the planet's climate.
Politics www.theatlantic.com The scientist who lost America's first climate war The explorer John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment of the West.
