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Joel Sartore has made it his mission to bring the planet’s most strange and exotic creatures into the living room of your average human. He shot nearly 400 portraits for his latest book, The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals, published by National Geographic. In it, Sartore captures the character and personality of naked mole rats, arctic foxes and dozens of other beasts standing at the brink of extinction.

Jeremy Deaton interviews Harriet Washington, a medical ethicist and author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind and Beth Gardiner, author of Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.

Scientists incur a carbon cost searching for answers to climate change. Should this hurt their credibility with the public?

A shield against rising seas