The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.

The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.

In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the scale of the climate crisis.

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics. 

Monarch butterflies may be gone in thirty years. Saving them seems apolitical, but environmentalists have landed in the sights of drug cartels, illegal loggers, Trump supporters, and even clandestine avocado farmers.

In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals.

Rereleased this year in a single volume, Kim Stanley Robinson’s trilogy Three Californias imagines three possible futures for the world writ large through the lens of Orange County, California.

Nineteenth-century reformers understood the deep connections between public health and environmental protection. That's why struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.