Environmental Issues

Trump Homelessness California Border

With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Roundups of the homeless, destruction of environmental and housing safeguards, collusion with foreign despots to savage reproductive rights—the president is an outlaw.

Sep 20, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky

Plastic Straw Man

Plastic Straw Man Plastic Straw Man

Or, how the right turns reason into treason.

Sep 20, 2019 / OppArt / Jen Sorensen

The US Navy Has a Water Problem

The US Navy Has a Water Problem The US Navy Has a Water Problem

The Second Fleet was reactivated to patrol the Arctic. Only problem is, the fleet’s home is on the front lines of sea-level rise: Naval Station Norfolk.

Sep 19, 2019 / Dave Lindorff

Students

It’s Time to Shed Light on Our Elite Institutions’ Dirty Money It’s Time to Shed Light on Our Elite Institutions’ Dirty Money

Currently, 99 percent of Harvard’s endowment remains hidden from the public.

Sep 19, 2019 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Coal power plant

What Would Real Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement Look Like? What Would Real Commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement Look Like?

The United States will be a nonentity at this fall’s UN climate summit. But the 2020 election is a chance to change the game.

Sep 19, 2019 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today

23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today 23 Reasons to Climate Strike Today

Take to the streets.

Sep 19, 2019 / Bill McKibben

TV Weathercasters Who Are Shifting Public Opinion on the Climate Crisis

TV Weathercasters Who Are Shifting Public Opinion on the Climate Crisis TV Weathercasters Who Are Shifting Public Opinion on the Climate Crisis

Meteorologists’ reports help viewers understand what is happening and why it’s important—and they’re having an impact.

Sep 18, 2019 / Pam Radtke Russell

Smokestack

We’re Fueling the Next Global Extinction We’re Fueling the Next Global Extinction

And it will wipe us out, too.

Sep 18, 2019 / Tom Engelhardt

Whether Report

Whether Report Whether Report

Whether we will drown in plastic?

Sep 18, 2019 / OppArt / Randall Enos

The UN Secretary General Urges Public Pressure to Address the Climate ‘Emergency’

The UN Secretary General Urges Public Pressure to Address the Climate ‘Emergency’ The UN Secretary General Urges Public Pressure to Address the Climate ‘Emergency’

“Nature is angry,” but a Green New Deal can help, says Secretary General António Guterres.

Sep 18, 2019 / Mark Hertsgaard

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