Environment

In Toxic Detention

In Toxic Detention In Toxic Detention

Investigating the alleged contaminated water crisis at the Northwest Detention Center.

May 15, 2025 / Photo Essay / Rico Moore

People carry a body, covered with a blanket, as they conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment of the Israeli army in the last 24 hours at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza, on November 1, 2023.

The Fingerprints Climate Change Leaves Behind The Fingerprints Climate Change Leaves Behind

A top climate-attribution scientist helps journalists understand and explain them.

May 15, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

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Letters From the June 2025 Issue Letters From the June 2025 Issue

Boys don’t cry… A call to action… The war party… Traveling to Cuba… Bill vs. Hill… Burning questions… The best medicine… Correction…

May 13, 2025 / Our Readers

Hiding in plain sight: Despite the epic scale of his crypto-linked corruption, Trump is unlikely to ever face justice. Especially with so many Democrats eager to take the industry’s (real) money.

Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished

The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him.

May 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Cruelty Is the Point

Cruelty Is the Point Cruelty Is the Point

Trump’s deportations and defundings = death.

May 6, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous (NYC)

Children and women run among a cloud of dust at the village of El Gel, eight kilometres from the town of K’elafo, Ethiopia, on January 12, 2023. The last five rainy seasons since the end of 2020 have failed, triggering the worst drought in four decades in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. According to the UN, drought has plunged 12 million people into “acute food insecurity” in Ethiopia alone.

Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet

A conversation with Olúfémi Táíwò about the struggle for racial and climate justice in the face of catastrophe.

May 5, 2025 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson

Riot Platforms cyrptomine property in Navarro County, Texas, on March 30, 2025.

Texas’s Crypto-Mining Racket Texas’s Crypto-Mining Racket

Public officials are propping up a Texas Bitcoin boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

May 5, 2025 / Candice Bernd

Signs of the Times

Signs of the Times Signs of the Times

In NYC and across the nation, protests erupt.

May 1, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper and Steve Brodner

A green lantern was lit in the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston to announce a day of action—Sun Day—to celebrate that we no longer need fossil fuels.

We Can Run the World Without Fossil Fuels We Can Run the World Without Fossil Fuels

By lighting a green lantern in Boston’s Old North Church, environmentalists announce a new global day of action—Sun Day—to celebrate a world that no longer needs fossil fuels.

Apr 30, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard and Bill McKibben

Saving Sinking Homes

Saving Sinking Homes Saving Sinking Homes

How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.

Apr 24, 2025 / Photo Essay / Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon

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