Peter Brannen
Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist and contributing writer at the Atlantic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, Wired, and the Guardian, among other publications. His first book, The Ends of the World, was published in 2017. Peter was a 2024 visiting scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, and is an affiliate at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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When Our World Was a Wasteland
During the Permian, Earth was without climate guardrails
August 22, 2025
