Earth Day Activists Wanted to Disrupt the Fossil Fuel Industry. The Pandemic Is Doing it For Them
Protestors can't be on the streets right now, so they're gathering strength on the boulevards of the Internet.
Climate Crisis
Next Up: The Climate Emergency
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that we are capable of putting people before profit. We can start planning now for a just economy—and an effective Green New Deal.
Coronavirus and Climate Change: How to Save Lives During Crises
A Canadian emergency doctor connects the dots between human and environmental health.
How the Climate Change Generation Is Redefining Community
We need to shift more than just our economy. We need to revolutionize our concept of community.
Saving People from Coronavirus Can Teach Us How to Do the Same for Climate Change
The global pandemic has slowed polluting human activity, while the climate crisis hasn’t been able to make a dent. This could be a turning point.
We Need a Green New Deal for Farmland
Americans have a short window of opportunity to combat climate change, rectify racist policies, and conserve farmland. This policy would help.
New Beginnings for an Ancient Forest, One Tree at a Time
Forest workers rush to give slow-growing whitebark pine saplings a head start.
Bridging the Food-or-Energy Gap
Should land be used for solar panels or agriculture? The burgeoning Solar Sheep movement argues: Why not both?
Turning Skiers Into Climate Voters
With 10 million skiers in the U.S. who are at risk of losing their snow to climate change, it's time to mobilize.
An Aspirational Vision of Life After Fossil Fuels
Building sustainable communities is the antidote to fear of a changing climate.
What U.S. Farming Can Do to Stop Climate Change
The landscape of farmland, pastures, ranges, and forest could sequester carbon on a massive scale by 2030. Here’s the math.
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years.
The Search for Planet-Friendly Protein
We can take a cue from cultures that eat further down the food chain.
How to Raise Climate-Resilient Kids
In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses.
The Rush to Rescue Wildlife From Australia’s Fires
Photographer John Moore documents the surviving wildlife and the volunteers and veterinary workers who have responded to the country's fires
When Environmentalists and the Fishing Industry Team Up, Ocean Habitats Win
An inspiring collaboration on the Pacific Coast blew fishery conservation goals out of the water.
Citizen Scientists Track How Plastic Pollution Impacts Birds
To get a big-picture perspective on the plastics that plague beaches, scientists team up with volunteers along the California Coast.
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants
The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over
We are entering humanity’s defining decade, and 2020 is when we have to make the hard decisions.
For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
“Our seeds are more than just food for us. Yes, they are nutrition. But they’re also… spirituality,” says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a
What We Could Do With a $5 Carbon Charge on Your Flight
Like it or not, the world will be flying more in the decades ahead—and flights are for many in the developed world the largest part of an individual’s (and often
Oh, Christmas Tree… Fake Christmas Tree?
It’s the holiday season again, and in the midst of making to-do lists and prepping for festive dinners, some people will once again ponder whether it is better for the
A Wish List From Climate Protesters in Seattle
The protesters were relatively chipper, if subdued, on this Monday morning—a fitting time of day for a meeting of the Sunrise Movement. This national youth-led effort is pushing the Green
Black Farmers Embrace Practices of Climate Resiliency
Chief Zogli looked weary as he scratched a notch in his doorpost to record the weather. “Still no rain,” he says with resignation. The chickens pecked lazily in the dust
How Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” affirms the Oglala-Sioux version of a belief common to several indigenous cultures. To David Brower,
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