Foreword / by David Remnick -- Reflections : the end of nature / by Bill McKibben -- The climate of man ; The darkening sea / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- Writers in the storm / by Kathryn Schulz -- The end of ice / by Dexter Filkins -- The new harpoon / by Tom Kizzia -- The sixth extinction? / by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The ice retreat / by Fen Montaigne -- The inferno / by Christine Kenneally -- The end of the end of the world / by Jonathan Franzen -- The emergency / by Ben Taub -- The day the Great Plains burned / by Ian Frazier -- Life on a shrinking planet / by Bill McKibben -- Green Manhattan / by David Owen -- Big foot / by Michael Specter -- The great oasis / by Burkhard Bilger -- The climate fixers / by Michael Specter -- Adaptation / by Eric Klineberg -- Power brokers / by Bill McKibben -- Value meal / by Tad Friend -- Trailblazers / by Nicola Twilley -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Kolbert.