Commentary by Wes Ely While society yawns, impatient to move on from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans still play disability roulette. About 1 in 10 of the 110,000 people who catch COVID this week in the…
Duke University didn’t inform public about lead in Durham parks By: Lisa Sorg Soil at three Durham parks—Walltown, East End and East Durham (and presumably a fourth, Lyon Park)—contain levels of lead as much as…
By Lisa Sorg The House overrode Gov. Cooper’s veto of the Farm Act today, stripping 2.5 million acres of wetlands—an area one and half times larger than the state of Delaware—of environmental protection. The vote…
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…
Commentary by George Monbiot Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains power, climate…
Land Defenders Arrested, Camp Raided After Blocking Excavator Ox Sam Camp press release OROVADA, NV — On June 6, a group of Native American water protectors and allies used their bodies to non-violently block construction…
By Tik Root As the torrent of rain slowed, then faded, the Vermont Green FC surged. The team had already turned a one-goal deficit into a 5-3 lead over AC Connecticut when, in the waning…
By Georgina Gustin On June 14, thousands of pages of documents landed on the doorstep of an office in an affluent Minneapolis suburb, containing details that accuse the country’s largest privately-held company of continuing to…
By Kate Yoder It’s been nearly two years to the day since a freak heat wave obliterated temperature records across the Pacific Northwest. Portland reached a blistering 116 degrees on June 28, 2021, with the…
By Richard Heinberg Human activity, mostly the burning of fossil fuels, has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million to 420ppm. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve…