Environmental Activism

Former Washington Nationals player Sean Doolittle pitching

Sean Doolittle, Baseball’s Left-Wing Lefty, Retires Sean Doolittle, Baseball’s Left-Wing Lefty, Retires

How the Nationals’ star reliever became the conscience of baseball.

Oct 6, 2023 / Peter Dreier

A person pushes a barricade floating on a flooded street amid a coastal storm on September 29, 2023, in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y..

What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet? What Good Is Architecture on a Drowning Planet?

We need political solutions to climate emergencies, not design solutions.

Oct 6, 2023 / Kate Wagner

Actress Jane Fonda is arrested during the

Jane Fonda’s Last Crusade Jane Fonda’s Last Crusade

The activist and Hollywood legend is “having a ball” electing climate champions across the US.

Oct 4, 2023 / Mark Hertsgaard

WANTED

WANTED WANTED

For cries against the climate.

Sep 29, 2023 / OppArt / Steve Brodner

Electric vehicles on the production line at General Motors' Factory ZERO all-electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Mich.

Automakers Don’t Need to Choose Between Labor and Climate Automakers Don’t Need to Choose Between Labor and Climate

Corporations say they can’t meet the UAW’s demands while also transitioning to electric vehicles. The truth is they just need to fork over the money.

Sep 27, 2023 / Lucy Dean Stockton

Volunteer Rojauna McPherson looks at a table full of pamphlets after being trained as a new volunteer at one of the

It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All It’s Time to Abolish Grand Juries Once and for All

Whether they’re targeting Donald Trump or Cop City protesters, grand juries are an irredeemable and unaccountable tool of state prosecutorial power.

Sep 27, 2023 / Chava Shapiro and James Clark

Mother Earth’s Sick Bed

Mother Earth’s Sick Bed Mother Earth’s Sick Bed

Actions and inactions that threaten our planet.

Sep 25, 2023 / OppArt / Jos Sances

Shortsighted

Shortsighted Shortsighted

In retrospect.

Sep 22, 2023 / OppArt / Drew Sheneman

Activists lie down during a 'Rally for Climate Sanity' outside Calgary's Town Hall in opposition to the 24th World Petroleum Congress Opening Ceremony, on September 17, 2023, in Calgary, Canada.

Making Climate the Everything Story Making Climate the Everything Story

The news media needs to stop treating climate change as a niche topic—and start treating it as the most important story of our time.

Sep 19, 2023 / Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

Plastic Island

Plastic Island Plastic Island

Nowhere to go. The ocean has more than 170 trillion plastic particles as pollution reaches unprecedented levels.

Sep 18, 2023 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo

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