At COP30, Will Lula Be a Rain Forest Champion? At COP30, Will Lula Be a Rain Forest Champion?
During this term, Brazil’s president has reduced deforestation but he is government is pushing projects that would open up the Amazon to extractivism.
Nov 8, 2025 / Jonathan Watts
How Much Suffering Can COP30 Prevent? How Much Suffering Can COP30 Prevent?
Bill Gates gets climate change wrong. It’s not a binary—humanity survives or goes extinct—it’s a questions of scale: How many people will die or be left destitute?
Nov 7, 2025 / Andrew McCormick
Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder. Winning a Fossil Fuel Divestment Pledge Is Hard. Keeping It Is Harder.
Nearly a decade after promising to withdraw millions in fossil fuel investments, the University of Massachusetts has stalled on its clean energy transition. What happened?
Nov 6, 2025 / StudentNation / Eric Ross
Clear-Cutting Our Future Clear-Cutting Our Future
Deforestation is destroying the lungs of our planet.
Nov 5, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
Nov 5, 2025 / Amy Westervelt
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.
Nov 4, 2025 / Spencer Ackerman
Climate Disasters Are Traumatizing Brazil’s Children Climate Disasters Are Traumatizing Brazil’s Children
The generation coming into the world now is expected will face unprecedented extreme weather events throughout their lives.
Nov 3, 2025 / Giovana Girardi
De-Evolution Thanks to Big Oil De-Evolution Thanks to Big Oil
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Oct 31, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
How a PR Giant Hijacked COP30 to Greenwash the Planet How a PR Giant Hijacked COP30 to Greenwash the Planet
Edelman invented the fossil fuel narratives, and now it’s running communications for COP30. All the while, frontline communities are telling very different stories.
Oct 27, 2025 / Shilpi Chhotray
We Have No One to Blame for Public Health Disasters but Ourselves We Have No One to Blame for Public Health Disasters but Ourselves
Isn’t it time, in the era of Trump and RFK Jr., to focus on a social structure in which corporations and institutions make decisions that profoundly affect people’s health?
Oct 23, 2025 / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner