How Communities are Making Political Violence Backfire By Maria J. Stephan Historically, organized collective action has been the strongest bulwark against authoritarianism and the political violence that greases its wheels, as my own research and…
Commentary by Carl Hintz Terms like “blue hydrogen” and “bridge fuel” are used by the gas industry and electric utilities to obscure how disastrous methane is for the climate. So what is “blue hydrogen”? It’s…
By Dan Gearino Even small community solar projects can be used as a tool to make energy more affordable for less affluent households, as a project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula shows. The solar array near…
By Joyner-Harris Forest Conservation WAKE FOREST, NC — A Change.org petition, spearheaded by long-time Wake Forest resident Angela DiPaolo, pleading with stakeholders to preserve the 68-acre forested parcel located on Harris Road directly across from…
Address to Progressive International’s 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana By Jason Hickel Thank you to PI for organizing this event, and thank you to our Cuban hosts, who have kept this revolution alive against extraordinary…
By Sonali Kolhatkar There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures. Most rank-and-file climate activists haven’t heard of it and most…
By David Gelles The extreme weather. The melting glaciers. The weirdly warm oceans. They’re all the product of global warming, which is being driven by the release of the three most important heat-trapping gases: carbon…
By Maria Gallucci “We don’t have exploding refineries here, and we want to keep it that way,” Hinojosa says from her office in downtown Brownsville, on a stretch of semi-vacant storefronts just blocks from the…
Journalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…
Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…