Republicans move to sell off 3.3 million acres of public land
A bill introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz last week proposes to sell 3.3 million acres of federal land in 10 different states.
Major new study shows pesticide risk to honey bees
Scientists are calling for a complete ban on neonics, but will governments listen?
Our bodies, societies and planet are inflamed for the same reasons
Raj Patel and Rupa Marya coauthored the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice to highlight the connections between health and structural injustice.
An aspirational vision of life after fossil fuels
Building sustainable communities is the antidote to fear of a changing climate.
As climate emergency worsens, freak lightning storm sends snow, scorpion plague on Egypt’s Aswan
High winds blew the deadly Egyptian black, fat-tailed scorpions from the surrounding desert into the city and into people’s homes.
Trump advisors plan to privatize native lands to tap into oil rich reservations
The incoming president has picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.
Japan to release Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
"The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes."
How a cooperative run by the formerly incarcerated is reshaping Chicago’s food industry
Megacorporations tend to dominate food contracting with schools and other large facilities in America. In Chicago, Black formerly incarcerated people are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
The case for protecting the Tongass National Forest, America’s ‘last climate sanctuary’
The “lungs of North America,” the Tongass National Forest is the Earth’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Protecting it means protecting the entire planet.
World’s forest animal population drops 53% since 1970: WWF report
The global population of forest-dwelling vertebrates has plummeted in the period between 1970 and 2014, according to a study published Tuesday by...








