Eugene Linden
Publications

Selected Publications

  • U.S. rejection of climate science is a call to action for the rest of the world — The Los Angeles Times (2025)
  • A Book's Vital Warning About How Forests Shape Human History — TIME (2024)
  • Worried About Sentient AI? Consider the Octopus — TIME (2024)
  • How a Lack of Local Reporting Affects the Supreme Court — Columbia Journalism Review (2024)
  • Europe's Carbon Tariff is the Right Idea, but Doomed — The Los Angeles Times (2023)
  • The Unholy Trinity of Corruption, Low Morale, and Military Failure — Lawfare (2022)
  • The Climate Challenge of the World's Population Hitting Eight Billion — TIME (2022)
  • Hurricane Ian and the Coming Climate Crash — The Los Angeles Times (2022)
  • Drilling Deep — New Scientist (2022)
  • The Supreme Court's Own Goal on Climate Change — Lawfare (2022)
  • Insurers Could Have Been Heroes. Instead They Have Risked a Crisis to Rival 2008 — The Guardian (2022)
  • Climate Change Became Politicized in the 1990s — TIME (2022)
  • Fragging and the United States of Rage — The Bulwark (2021)
  • What Might the Post-Pandemic World Look Like? — TIME (2020)
  • How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong — The New York Times (2019)
  • The Economics Nobel went to a guy who enabled climate change denial and delay — The Los Angeles Times (2018)
  • Remember the Population Bomb? It's Still Ticking — The New York Times (2017)
  • A papal call to reconcile the natural, spiritual, and industrial worlds — Financial Times (2015)
  • Epiphany, With Encyclopedias — The New York Times (Op-Ed) (2014)
  • The Call of the Wild — Parade (2007)
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Chaos — Fortune (2006)
  • Seeing the Forest: Conservation on a Continental Scale — Foreign Affairs (2004)
  • The Nature of Cuba: Tiny frogs. Vast swamps. Pristine rivers. Whether by design or default, the island boasts the Caribbean's best-kept wildlands. But for how long? — Smithsonian [COVER] (2003)
  • Who's Going to Pay For Climate Change? The threat of lawsuits — and an exodus of insurance companies — may finally force corporations to think green — Time.com (2003)
  • Eugene Linden Diary — Slate (2001)
  • The Road To Disaster: If Brazil paves this route through the Amazon, the earth's largest rain forest could go up in flames — Time (ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 96) [INTERNATIONAL COVER] (2000)
  • The Big Meltdown: As the temperature rises in the Arctic, it sends a chill around the planet — Time (ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 52) [INTERNATIONAL COVER] (2000)
  • Condition Critical: An exclusive look at a U.N. assessment of Earth's ecosystems shows they are strained to the limit — Time (STATE OF THE PLANET, Pg. 18) [COVER] (2000)
  • Bats And Brokers: Looking for clues to explain Tuesday's market gyrations? Observe a bloodsucking mammal — Time (Pg. 92) (2000)
  • Facing Our Ecofolly: Environmental abuse and overpopulation mean the worst is yet to come — Time (TIME LATIN AMERICA, Viewpoint, Pg. 19) (2000)
  • Forecasting the Digital Age — Slate Dialogue (first entry) (1998)
  • Volatility: Get Used to It; The global market magnifies our worst instincts — Time (INT TIME ATLANTIC, Viewpoint, Pg. 89) (1998)
  • Smoke Signals: Vast forest fires have scarred the globe, but the worst may be yet to come — Time (ENVIRONMENT/PLANET WATCH, Pg. 50) (1998)
  • How to Kill a Tiger: Speculators tell the story of their attack against the Baht, the opening act of an ongoing drama — Time (TIME ASIA, Pg. 24) (1997)
  • What Have We Wrought? Our descendants in the next century may find themselves paying dearly for the material magic of the consumer society — Time (TIME ASIA SPECIAL ISSUE/OUR PRECIOUS PLANET, OVERVIEW, Pg. 10) (1997)
  • Legions of the Dispossessed: Land degradation is creating multitudes of ecomigrants who cross borders and threaten the security of nations — Time (TIME ASIA SPECIAL ISSUE/OUR PRECIOUS PLANET, VIEWPOINT, Pg. 28) (1997)
  • A World Awakens: History shows that societies pollute first and pay later. Will the new awareness change our ways before it's too late? — Time (TIME ASIA SPECIAL ISSUE/OUR PRECIOUS PLANET, PERSPECTIVE, Pg. 80) (1997)
  • A Way to Break the Impasse on Global Warming — The New York Times (Editorial Desk, Section A, Page 15) (1997)
  • From Rio to Ruin? Maybe not. As the U.N. Dithers, the poor take action — Time (VIEWPOINT, Pg. 33) (1997)
  • Antarctica: Warnings from the ice — the conventional wisdom is that climate change will be gradual and moderate. But what if it is sudden and extreme? A frozen wilderness may hold the answer — Time (ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 54) [INTERNATIONAL COVER] (1997)
  • Global Fever: Climate change threatens more than megastorms, floods and droughts. The real peril may be disease — Time (ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 56) (1996)
  • The Tree Gods Are a Bit Testy — The New York Times (Op-Ed) (1996)
  • The Exploding Cities of the Developing World — Foreign Affairs (ESSAYS, Pg. 52) (1996)
  • The Tortured Land: An epic landscape steeped in tragedy, Siberia suffered grievously under communism. Now the world's capitalists covet its vast riches — Time (Pg. 42) [COVER] (1995)
  • Chain Saws Invade Eden: Vast, pristine forests in South America's sparsely populated Guyanas ought to be safe. Not so. — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 58) (1994)
  • Ancient Creatures In A Lost World: In an isolated, rugged region that divides Vietnam and Laos, scientists find a trove of new species — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 52) (1994)
  • Population: The Awkward Truth — Time (U.S. Edition, ESSAY, Pg. 74) (1994)
  • Tigers On The Brink — Time (U.S. Edition, Pg. 44) [COVER] (1994)
  • Burned By Warming — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 79) (1994)
  • Sustainable Follies — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 56) (1993)
  • Who Lost The Ozone? How the world waited too long to rescue the shield that protects earth from the sun's dangerous UV rays — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 56) (1993)
  • Will the System Defeat Al Gore? — Time (U.S. Edition, ESSAY, Pg. 74) (1993)
  • Megacities — Time (U.S. Edition, Pg. 28) [COVER] (1993)
  • The Green Factor: Does protecting the planet destroy jobs? — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 57) (1992)
  • The Last Eden: A trip into a remote African rain forest is a journey back in time to a world where the animals have never encountered humans — Time (U.S. Edition, Pg. 62) [COVER] (1992)
  • Summit To Save The Earth; Rio's Legacy — Time (U.S. Edition, Pg. 44) (1992)
  • Summit To Save The Earth; Population: The Uninvited Guest — Time (U.S. Edition, Pg. 54) (1992)
  • Apes and Humans: A curious kinship — National Geographic [COVER] (1992)
  • Demanding Payment for Good Behavior — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 52) (1992)
  • Hot Air at The Earth Summit? As the U.S. stonewalls a Rio meeting, citizens offer a planet-saving proposal — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 77) (1991)
  • Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge — Time (U.S. Edition, CULTURES, Pg. 46) [COVER] (1991)
  • Foreign Aid; Good Intentions, Woeful Results: How an ambitious environmental program ended up damaging the tropical rain forests — Time (U.S. Edition, WORLD, Pg. 48) (1991)
  • Endangered Earth Update; Is the planet on the back burner? War and recession may be grabbing the headlines, but the relentless trashing of the world's air, land and seas continues apace — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 48) (1990)
  • The Last Drops: Population growth and development have depleted and polluted the world's water supply, raising the risk of starvation, epidemics and even wars — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 58) [INTERNATIONAL COVER] (1990)
  • Dashed Hopes and Bogus Fears: The Smithsonian chronicles an unpredictable Information age — Time (U.S. Edition, TECHNOLOGY, Pg. 58) (1990)
  • Earth Day; Will the Ballyhoo go bust? — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 86) (1990)
  • Can We Really Understand Matter? — Time (U.S. Edition, SCIENCE, Pg. 57) (1990)
  • How the Earth Maintains Life: An intriguing scientific theory continues to win adherents — Time (U.S. Edition, IDEAS, Pg. 114) (1989)
  • Special Report: Greening of Geopolitics; How the U.S. Can Take The Lead in the Third World; First: stop sending mixed signals — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 63) (1989)
  • Playing with Fire: Destruction of the Amazon is "one of the great tragedies of history" — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Cover Story, Pg. 76) [COVER] (1989)
  • Putting the Heat on Japan: Accused of ravaging the world's forests and seas, Tokyo starts to clean up its act — Time (U.S. Edition, ENVIRONMENT, Pg. 50) (1989)
  • Biodiversity; The Death of Birth — THE PROBLEM: Man is recklessly wiping out life on earth — Time (U.S. Edition, PLANET OF THE YEAR, Pg. 32) [COVER] (1989)
  • Putting Knowledge to Work: Suddenly, artificial intelligence produces some results — Time (U.S. Edition, TECHNOLOGY, Pg. 60) [COVER] (1988)
  • Boom in the Bust Market; Taking Stock in Bankruptcy — Time (U.S. Edition, ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Pg. 52) (1987)
  • The Gambia; signs in the wilderness — The Atlantic (Vol. 257, Pg. 32) (1986)
  • Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom — Inc. (THE AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR, Pg. 64) (1984)
  • Politics Means Getting To Say You're Sorry — Wall Street Journal (Op-Ed) (1984)
  • The Demoralization of an Army: Fragging and Other Withdrawal Symptoms — Saturday Review [COVER] (1972)