Environmental Issues

Give the Students a Round of Applause

Give the Students a Round of Applause Give the Students a Round of Applause

It's been a… tumultuous school year. But that didn’t stop young people from fighting for change.

Dec 31, 2020 / StudentNation / StudentNation

Holding Our Breath for Four Years

Holding Our Breath for Four Years Holding Our Breath for Four Years

Exhaling after Trump’s environmental attacks.

Dec 26, 2020 / OppArt / Tjeerd Royaards

This California Law Offers Biden a Tool in the Fight for Environmental Justice

This California Law Offers Biden a Tool in the Fight for Environmental Justice This California Law Offers Biden a Tool in the Fight for Environmental Justice

With a community-based approach, AB 617 could help guide Biden’s EPA in leveraging the 1970 Clean Air Act to fight for racial justice.

Dec 24, 2020 / Benjamin Ryan

Climate activists protest on the first day of the Exxon Mobil trial outside the New York State Supreme Court building on October 22, 2019.

You Can Refuse to Work for Fossil Fuel Companies—These Law Students Show How You Can Refuse to Work for Fossil Fuel Companies—These Law Students Show How

“We should all disagree with a business model that condemns future generations to disaster and displacement.”

Dec 22, 2020 / StudentNation / Josh Kirmsse and Catherine Rocchi

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Climate Change Climate Change

Public Art, Yerbabuena Cultural Center, San Francisco, Calif. Photo by Alessandra Mondolfi.

Dec 18, 2020 / OppArt / Alessandra Mondolfi

As 2020 Ends, It’s Time for News Outlets to Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’

As 2020 Ends, It’s Time for News Outlets to Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ As 2020 Ends, It’s Time for News Outlets to Declare a ‘Climate Emergency’

Scientists say they have “a moral obligation” to “tell it like it is”—don’t journalists too?

Dec 17, 2020 / Mark Hertsgaard

How to Defeat the Fossil Fuel Industry

How to Defeat the Fossil Fuel Industry How to Defeat the Fossil Fuel Industry

Making it harder to build more pipelines and gas-powered plants will help make the Green New Deal and a livable planet so much more possible.

Dec 16, 2020 / Richard Lachmann, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin Young

The Most Vital Transition Is Ours

The Most Vital Transition Is Ours The Most Vital Transition Is Ours

Reading revives historical memory in the flat Zoom time of pandemic.

Dec 16, 2020 / Peter Linebaugh

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Letters From the December 28, 2020/January 4, 2021, Issue Letters From the December 28, 2020/January 4, 2021, Issue

No great mystery… Supreme obstacle… Paradise lost…

Dec 15, 2020 / Our Readers

What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?

What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic? What if Scientists Already Know How to Prevent the Next Pandemic?

One Health is a pan-species approach that could ward off the next big outbreak. But first, it has to overcome the anti-science ethos of the Trump era.

Dec 14, 2020 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias

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