Climate change, PFAS chemical contaminations, mass extinctions, and our efforts to feed 8+ billion people are pushing our planet beyond its limits. These crises are connected and existential. These authors describe the challenges if we fail to take action and the visionaries who are tackling them.

Mariah Blake is an investigative journalist whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New Republic, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. She was a Murrey Marder Nieman Fellow in Watchdog Journalism at Harvard University....

Kenneth R. Rosen is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents, and was a two time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED....

Alan Weisman has reported from all seven continents and more than 60 countries. His books include The New York Times bestseller "The World Without Us," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award....


