The 7.26.20 Issue

Highlights

1. The Great Climate Migration Has Begun

   New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.

    By Abrahm Lustgarten

   

2. Learning From the Kariba Dam

   Climate change and neglect have brought the mammoth structure at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe to the brink of calamity — a crisis prefigured in the dam’s troubling colonial history.

    By Namwali Serpell

   

3. The Teenagers at the End of the World

   Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

    By Brooke Jarvis

   

4. What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province?

   Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works — and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.

    By Noah Gallagher Shannon