Community Solar Done Right
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…
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‘Save the Forest’ Petition Surpasses 5K Signatures
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…
Climate, Energy and Natural Resources
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…
ISDS: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Weapon
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…
Three Greenhouse Gases, Three All-time Highs
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…
Inside the Fight to Stop South Texas LNG
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…
2024 Is the Climate Election
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…
Educate More Girls, Eat Less Meat
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…
A Warming Planet, Pathogens, and Diseases
By Zoya Teirstein People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals—and the diseases they carry…
Make Polluters Pay
Vermont Law Makes Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Impacts Interview by Paloma Beltran Vermont’s House and Senate have approved a bill that would make fossil fuel companies financially liable for their carbon pollution and…