On a Philippine island, indigenous groups take the fight to big palm oil
After years of struggling against the odds for the rights to their land, the indigenous peoples of Palawan appear to be making progress.
To restore nature, we must invest more in our children
Understanding the connection between women’s and children’s rights, family planning, and the environmental crisis.
Bernie Sanders promises, if elected, all administration members will oppose fracking and fossil fuels
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced yesterday that if elected for 2020 U.S. President, his administration would only be made up of officials who,...
The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
Conservation group to buy world’s largest privately held sequoia forest for $15M
"By protecting this property, we will safeguard the biological richness and ecological resilience of a forest unlike any other on Earth."
Offshore oil drilling: The national story
Will the Trump administration with its call to “drill baby drill” listen?
Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean
New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.
World’s richest 10% responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990: Study
They discovered that emissions from the richest 10 percent of people in China and the United States alone each resulted in an increase of two to three times the heat extremes in vulnerable regions.
Endangered wildlife are getting dosed with rat poisons
Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.
World to exceed 1.5°C heating threshold, extreme urgency for fossil fuel phaseout in new...
Current emissions trajectories mean the remaining "carbon budget" for a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5°C will likely be depleted by 2030.