Some of the Sky Used to Be Rock

An AMOC slowdown travels across the Sahara and into the making of clouds.

Cook on Top, Suffocate Below: The Trout Lake I Built to Kill Them

I stocked the most beautiful trout in Montana into my new lake. It took three summers to learn what the lake had been trying to tell me.

Why Europe’s Deadliest Summer Felt Like Nothing

A comfortable afternoon can make a very unreliable witness

Can a Country Be Too Small to Blame?

Every tonne warms the planet. In court, none is ever large enough to answer for a flooded grave

The Smallest Number Warming the Planet

Methane is scarce in the atmosphere, but its heating power, and how quickly it fades, make it one of our best chances to slow global…

I’m the Other Woman in a Marriage Where Nothing Happens

My married fishing partner tells me what he can’t tell his wife, and I’ve started to like it

The Contrail Loophole

Contrails heat the planet alongside jet fuel, and dodging the worst of them is cheap. So why does no law make airlines do it?

I Left a Good Man Because a 14-Year-Old Told Me To

The list is still in my grandmother’s cookbook, between the cloudberry jam and the blood pancakes

Can You Overthrow a Strongman Without Creating Another?

Sixteen deaths started a revolt in Serbia. Now a student movement without a single leader is challenging a political system built around…

France Loves Its Rebels (Once They Stop Making Demands)

The republic teaches children that resistance helped win their rights. What happens when they take the lesson seriously?

Ducks Are Made of Mud

Waterfowlers built one of Earth’s great conservation stories by looking up. The warming prairie potholes now ask them to look down.

China’s Growth Machine Started Making Slop

The mayors’ tournament that gave the world the one-dollar lighter and the electric car just met a prize nobody has to buy.

Germany’s Far Right Is Testing Its Route to Power — With Ukraine on the Line

The world remembers Hitler. But who remembers the men who let him in?

The Quantastic Quarterly

Issue: October 2026 (ISSN 3035–8000)

How Does a Thunderstorm Give Asthma to People Who Don’t Have It?

The worst night of its kind began with an unremarkable storm forecast

The Atlantic Won’t Give Us an Appointment

Why there’s no reliable AMOC collapse date and how a weaker circulation still affects life around the world

How Fishing Can Be The Top Link of a Methane-Control System

The more we harvest, the more we can fight algal blooms

India’s Plan to Bring Water to Millions Is Flooding Villages

A water supply isn’t the same as an end to drought

Nobody Is Going to Ban Human Work (They’ll Give It a Minimum Flow)

Sweden protected its most famous waterfall in 1909, then piped the river through a mountain. Our days are going the same way.