By Zack Budryk Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year—and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits. Interpol estimates that environmental crime…
By Rainforest Action Network The recently released 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks…
Alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature By Sammi Bennett & Krystyna Swiderska Across the world, people are questioning dominant narratives of social progress based on capital accumulation and natural resource extraction….
By Chris Baraniuk On a hot July day, Katherine Rose picked up a sturdy metal pole and jammed it under the tempting lip of a pre-cut concrete slab. Rose, communications and engagement director at Depave,…
It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife By Diana Bell I am a conservation biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. When people ask me what I think the next pandemic will be I often say that…
in 57 German Cities By Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting…
Ecological Restoration By Josephine Woolington In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Willamette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived…
The world isn’t ready yet to meet people’s changing needs By Julie Watson TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)—Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in…
By Jason Hickel We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to…
By Lisa Sorg It took nearly two hours for dozens of opponents of a proposed liquified natural gas plant in Person County to explain how the project—aspects of which have been crafted in secret—would harm…