What Typhoon Halong Did to Western Alaska
This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one. Commentary by Samuel Johns There comes a point when we have to put our pride aside and be honest about where we are….
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True Climate Justice Demands a Reckoning
with Colonialism By Nciko wa Nciko and Samrawit Gateneh The African Union declared 2025 to be the “Year of Justice for Africans and People of African Descent through Reparations”. The African Court on Human and…
The Kids Who Sued America Aren’t Done Yet
They’re taking their climate case to the next level By Anita Hofschneider In 2015, nearly two dozen American youth sued the federal government, alleging that the United States violated their constitutional rights by facilitating the…
Claiming the Power to Protect
National sovereignty is at the root of the environmental struggle in Brazil By Miguel Enrique Stedile The battle to preserve our environment is intrinsically linked to the defense of our national sovereignty. How our country…
DRC in Flames, Big Oil in Fortune
By Babawale Obayanju The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems and one of the largest carbon sinks left on Earth, second only in size to…
Sand Mining Is a Booming Industry
This Mexican Community Is Paying the Price By Tamara Pearson Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade….
Lessons for Protesters from Standing Rock
The events following the 2016 protest are urgently relevant to our current political moment Commentary by Emily Atkin During the high-profile demonstrations against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016, the FBI sent several informants disguised…
5 Lessons for the Next Hurricane
Prescient Warnings About Helene Didn’t Reach People in Harm’s Way By Jennifer Berry Hawes and Mollie Simon, with additional reporting by Cassandra Garibay When Hurricane Helene plowed over the Southeast last September, it caused more…
Nuclear Threat Beneath the Seas
The rising danger of the global submarine nuclear arms race By Lynda Williams Right now, beneath the world’s oceans, approximately 30 nuclear-armed submarines patrol silently, virtually undetectable. These submarines represent humanity’s deadliest doomsday machines: stealthy,…
Mutual Aid across State Lines
Eastern Kentucky to Western NC and back again: “We know what it’s like” By Katie Myers When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide swath of the…