Environment

How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks

How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks How Carbon Farming Can Help Stop Climate Change in Its Tracks

New agricultural methods offer hope of restoring ecological balance.

May 6, 2019 / Feature / Wilbur Wood

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is an Environmental Tragedy Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is an Environmental Tragedy

Ethiopia’s rivers and lakes are now drying up at terrifying speed.

May 1, 2019 / Christelle Gérand

Notre Dame Cathedral

Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future Billionaires Can Rebuild the Past, but Their Wealth Can’t Fix the Future

To save the environment and curb climate change, we need to transform the economy that allows for billionaires to exist in the first place.

Apr 30, 2019 / Emilie Prattico

It’s the Company You Keep

It’s the Company You Keep It’s the Company You Keep

Trump rides the climate-change-denial elephant.

Apr 30, 2019 / OppArt / Ruben Bolling

Live, April 30: Covering Climate Change in a 1.5-Degree World

Live, April 30: Covering Climate Change in a 1.5-Degree World Live, April 30: Covering Climate Change in a 1.5-Degree World

A town hall, convened by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, and co-sponsored by The Guardian and WNYC.

Apr 29, 2019 / The Nation

U.S.S.R. Trumptanic

U.S.S.R. Trumptanic U.S.S.R. Trumptanic

The president sets America on a course for icebergs.

Apr 29, 2019 / OppArt / Adam McCauley

Samantha Paradis

What’s It Like to Be Young, Queer, and the Mayor? What’s It Like to Be Young, Queer, and the Mayor?

Over tea, Samantha Paradis discusses the challenges of running a small town in rural Maine.

Apr 26, 2019 / Naomi Gordon-Loebl

Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires

Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires Comic Book Catharsis: A Q&A With Brian Fies on His Powerful Graphic Novel About California Wildfires

His new memoir, A Fire Story, details what happened when the Tubbs Fire turned his and his neighbors’ lives upside down.

Apr 26, 2019 / Elena Goukassian

Cathedral of Notre Dame going up in flames

Notre Dame Is Not the Only Fire Worth Worrying Over Notre Dame Is Not the Only Fire Worth Worrying Over

The global response to climate change is akin to Paris completely ignoring the cathedral’s near destruction.

Apr 25, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt

Ralph Northam Says He’s Committed to Racial Equity. So Why is He Ignoring Union Hill?

Ralph Northam Says He’s Committed to Racial Equity. So Why is He Ignoring Union Hill? Ralph Northam Says He’s Committed to Racial Equity. So Why is He Ignoring Union Hill?

Residents of a historic African-American community in Virginia are asking the governor to keep a major natural-gas project out of their town. 

Apr 25, 2019 / Jesse James DeConto

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