Bank backing pipeline launches own investigation into treatment of Standing Rock Sioux
$460 million in credit is at stake for the Dakota Access and Bakken pipeline as Norway’s largest bank announces its own “fact-based” evaluation of indigenous rights abuses.
Monsanto faces hundreds of new cancer lawsuits as debate over glyphosate rages on
The biotech giant refutes the classification and insists that glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer.
We need immediate and drastic climate action
We must very rapidly stop the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
VIDEO: Love Wins: After Decades of Struggle, Marriage Equality Now the Law of the...
A recent ruling by the Supreme Court finally puts an end to marriage equality bans. The historic decision requires all 50 states to now permit LGBTQ couples "the fundamental right to marry."
Democratic legislators send scathing letter to Amazon inquiring about employee deaths
“Amazon has proven time and time again that it views workers as disposable means to achieving greater profits.”
Lift the Supreme Court’s veil of secrecy
These nine individuals make decisions that affect every American. Why should they get to do it secretly?
A Bioengineered Tree Could Revive America’s Once-Vast Chestnut Forests
Scientists discover a gene that makes chestnuts resistant to a fungus that killed off billions of trees that provided food and shelter for wildlife.
Celebrating Berta Cáceres and Ending Violence Against Indigenous Land Activists
Cáceres spoke of a way forward: “We must shake our conscience free of the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own self-destruction.”
Apple Is Generating So Much Renewable Energy It Plans to Start Selling It
“Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time, and the time for action is now.”
Defense contractor detained migrant kids in vacant Phoenix office building
It is not listed among shelters operating through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on the state child care licensing website.