Author Paul Greenberg made a big splash in 2010 with his book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, which explored modern fishing and its environmental impacts. He draws the lens even closer, examining the unique stories of U.S. seafood in American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood.

Artist Rachel Sussman has crossed the globe taking pictures of long-lived creatures that put Methuselah (a mere 969-year-old spring chicken) to shame. 30 of her subjects, all clocking in at least 2,000 years on Earth, are stunningly depicted in her latest collection.

Rudely ignoring mankind’s widespread refusal to accept its truth, climate change has already begun reshaping our world: melting the ice caps, acidifying the sea, and stirring up wild weather. The recent IPCC report couldn’t be clearer: Our time with the Earth as we know it is limited, now. In fact, within the next generation or two, popular tourist destinations ranging from seashores to mountaintops to major world cities will begin to decline, and absent a level of global policy change or technological innovation that seems unthinkable, some will surely be radically altered or lost. So if you’ve been putting off that snorkeling trip to the Great Barrier Reef or that ski adventure to the Alps, time to get booking—the geological clock is ticking. The Shrinking Island Nations Islands don’t float; they are the tips of mountain ranges on the sea floor. They’re the canaries in the climate change coal mine: the first places to be directly, catastrophically threatened by rising sea levels. The denizens of The Maldives, Kiribati, and other island nations, have resigned themselves to becoming among the first climate change refugees. In 2009, the first of the 2,600 residents of the Carteret Islands, off the coast of Papua …

The air grows thick. Dark clouds churn like a pot of boiling water overhead. The colors of reality become oversaturated—greens too green, yellow a sickly gold. This is what tornado weather looks like, and the United States has been hit with a lot of it lately.