Do Humans Really Understand the World’s Disorderly Rivers? Do Humans Really Understand the World’s Disorderly Rivers?
In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earth’s depleted watershed....
Feb 24, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Sherrell
The Scramble for Lithium The Scramble for Lithium
Thea Riofrancos’s Extraction tells the story of how a critical mineral became the focus of a worldwide battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism.
Feb 23, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Casey A. Williams
Where Climate Coverage Goes to Die Where Climate Coverage Goes to Die
The very notion of public service journalism is under assault at precisely the moment that it’s most needed.
Feb 19, 2026 / Kyle Pope
Cuba Hunkers Down as a US Oil Blockade Brings a Humanitarian Crisis Cuba Hunkers Down as a US Oil Blockade Brings a Humanitarian Crisis
Fear but no panic on the streets.
Feb 17, 2026 / Marc Frank
The Ghosts of Colonialism Haunt Our Batteries The Ghosts of Colonialism Haunt Our Batteries
With its cobalt and lithium mines, Congo is powering an energy revolution. It contains both the worst horrors of modern metal extraction—and the seeds of a more moral economics.
Feb 13, 2026 / Feature / Nicolas Niarchos
How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World
In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.
Feb 11, 2026 / Books & the Arts / Kohei Saito
The International Olympics Committee Is Urged to Drop Oil Company Sponsors The International Olympics Committee Is Urged to Drop Oil Company Sponsors
Global warming means the future of Winter Games “is literally melting away.”
Feb 5, 2026 / Mark Hertsgaard
Trump’s Oily Attack on Venezuela Trump’s Oily Attack on Venezuela
The US government is seizing tankers like pirates.
Feb 5, 2026 / OppArt / Glen Le Lievre
The Future of the Fourth Estate The Future of the Fourth Estate
As major media capitulated to Trump this past year, student journalists held the powerful to account—both on campus and beyond.
Feb 2, 2026 / Feature / Adelaide Parker, Fatimah Azeem, Tareq AlSourani, and William Liang
Can New York Adapt the Subway for the Climate Crisis? Can New York Adapt the Subway for the Climate Crisis?
As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city’s 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever.
Jan 28, 2026 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen