Новости за 15.12.2016

There are a few familiar images that get attached to articles about climate change—smokestacks and miles of parched earth, on the one extreme; solar panels and wind turbines on the other. In Standing Rock, it’s hard to shake the feeling those old favorites should be taken out of rotation.

I have spent many hours in a cancer ward. It’s a spotless, fluorescent-lit expanse divided into “pods,” a space-age terminology that is reassuringly high-tech. Inside each pod are rows of people sitting in Barcaloungers next to metal IV frames dangling bags of fluids, like squishy Calder mobiles suspended above the patients’ shoulders.