What does climate change look like? These pictures give you a glimpse. Here’s the featured expert’s quote: “I was still completely unprepared for the gob-smacking scale of the breakup, which rendered me speechless.” Me too.

E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).