Environment

Indigenous-Colombian Protest

For Afro-Colombians, the 2016 Peace Treaty Brought No Peace For Afro-Colombians, the 2016 Peace Treaty Brought No Peace

Hundreds of human-rights defenders have been killed since the accords. And Afro-Colombians like Goldman Environmental Prize–winner Francia Márquez are a particular target.

May 23, 2019 / Roosbelinda Cárdenas

What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II?

What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II? What if Reporters Covered the Climate Crisis Like Edward R. Murrow Covered the Start of World War II?

The new Covering Climate Now project will help media “tell the story so people get it.”

May 22, 2019 / Feature / Bill Moyers

Hurricane Maria, Virgin Islands

Trump Is Embracing Climate Destruction Trump Is Embracing Climate Destruction

Can we act in time to avoid the worst?

May 21, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Plucking the Wings off the EPA

Plucking the Wings off the EPA Plucking the Wings off the EPA

Corporate destruction of our environmental security.

May 21, 2019 / OppArt / Sue Coe

Student Climate Strike

Europe’s Striking Climate Kids Show How to Defeat the Far Right Europe’s Striking Climate Kids Show How to Defeat the Far Right

Fighting climate change now polls as a top priority among European voters—while most far-right leaders are climate denialists.

May 20, 2019 / Paul Hockenos

Carlos Sandi

The Media Have Missed a Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report The Media Have Missed a Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report

If we want to halt the extinction crisis, we need to embrace Indigenous worldviews.

May 20, 2019 / Four Arrows

The Inescapable Politics of Climate Change

The Inescapable Politics of Climate Change The Inescapable Politics of Climate Change

What we need to know now is not what climate change will do in the future, but what we should about it in the present.

May 20, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Alyssa Battistoni

AOC

The Political Power of the Green New Deal The Political Power of the Green New Deal

Climate activists are pushing Democratic candidates to give voters “something worth voting for.”

May 17, 2019 / Zoë Carpenter

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Letters From the June 3-10, 2019, Issue Letters From the June 3-10, 2019, Issue

A priceless answer…  On the record… Corrections and clarifications

May 17, 2019 / Our Readers

Okinawa Base Protest

In Their Fight to Stop a New US Military Base, Okinawans Confront Two Colonizers In Their Fight to Stop a New US Military Base, Okinawans Confront Two Colonizers

For the Japanese government, which has never acknowledged Okinawan indigenous rights, the island is a convenient location for the American military.

May 16, 2019 / Maia Hibbett

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