Thirty years ago, TIME named the endangered Earth Planet of the Year. It’s taken that long for the world to wake up to the reality. Man-made climate change has thrown us headfirst into a true crisis that touches every part of the globe, and we can’t waste any time making systemic changes to the global economy, geopolitics, and culture if we want life on Earth to survive. Thirty years from now, we’ll look back at 2019 as another inflection point—whether good or bad is up to us.
Read TIME Editor in Chief Edward Felsenthal on why we committed to putting climate change at the center of our editorial mission.
Voices
TIME brought together some the world’s leading thinkers on global warming to start the conversations we need to have to knock human civilization off its disastrous trajectory.
The Tipping Point
by Matt Sandy / Photographs by Sebastián Liste—NOOR for TIMEThe Amazon rain forest has existed for 10 million years. It might not survive another century.
Take a 3-D journey into the Amazon, narrated by famed conservationist Jane Goodall, by downloading the TIME Immersive app.
The Hottest City on Earth
by Aryn Baker / Photographs by Matthieu Paley for TIMEIt can reach 124°F in Jacobabad, Pakistan. Is this our overheated future?
Read moreThe Great Green Wall of Africa
by Aryn Baker / Photographs by Jane Hahn for TIMEInside the $8 billion dollar gardening project fighting the effects of climate change.
Read moreThe American Heartland’s Change of Heart
by Justin WorlandIt might be too late but global warming has finally found widespread acceptance among U.S. voters.
Read moreFinding Refuge
by Angelina Jolie / Photographs by Christopher Gregory for TIMEThe South Pacific faces the imminent prospect of their homeland and culture drowning under surging seas.
Read moreA Walk On the Rewilding Side
by Ciara NugentFifty miles east of London, a stretch of reclaimed land is helping save the planet.
Read moreThe Great Melt
by Time Staff / Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos for TIMEThe real threat is buried within Antarctica’s melting glaciers.
Read moreThe Women Who Will Save the World
The United Nations estimates that of all those displaced by climate change, 80% are women. They are also coming to the fore and becoming the leading voices calling for action.
Illustrations by Jacqui Oakley for TIME
