“Not even Superstorm Sandy has been able to grab our collective national attention long enough for anyone to think about taking serious action to combat global warming. ‘We’re going in precisely in the wrong direction,’ Elizabeth Kolbert says on this week’s Political Scene podcast. ‘[The Greenland ice sheet] is now melting at five times the rate it was in the nineteen-nineties. That has pretty significant implications for sea-level rise all over the world.’”

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 Click-through for a look back at 20 of the most striking images of our home planet as seen from orbit in 2012: http://nyr.kr/UosuxW, images courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory,

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The power’s back on! Let’s dry our socks,

And turn the volume down on Fox,

Mix up a vat of eggnog, brandied,

And fling a last Bronx cheer at Sandy.

Kick out the jams! Swing wide the gates!

Yeah, everybody—celebrate!

Come on in, friends. Pull up a chair,

Or hunker by the fireplace there…

Continue reading Ian Frazier’s holiday poem: http://nyr.kr/UosJKl

A month ago today, Hurricane Sandy blew up the East Coast, leaving behind wreckage, from torn-up beaches to battered city streets. The photographers Peter van Agtmael, Adrian Fussell, and others captured the storm and its aftermath for The New Yorker. Click-through for a look back at what they saw: http://nyr.kr/U53AlF

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Marina Harss on the Martha Graham Dance Company, and their loss after Hurricane Sandy: http://nyr.kr/ZKscpA

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“Undeterred,” the Nov. 12, 2012 cover of the magazine. Here, the artist Adrian Tomine talks about the inspiration for his cover. 

Rebecca Mead visits the Seward Park Cooperative in New York City’s Lower East Side after Hurricane Sandy:

In the absence of institutionalized solidarity, spontaneous coöperation prevailed…. despite the prospect of at least one more night without power, [the elderly residents found themselves] a little less in the dark.

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Photograph by Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum.

Shannon stands beside what’s left of her bed, after fire completely destroyed her home yesterday.

As others took refuge from Sandy indoors, Brooklyn-based photographer Radcliffe Roye took to the streets—and beaches—of New York City. Follow @newyorkermag on Instagram to see how New Yorkers weathered the storm on Monday, and click-through for a selection of his images: http://nyr.kr/ShAPDO

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