Environmental Issues

How to Kill the Oil Hydra—and Other Lessons From the Fight Against Keystone XL

How to Kill the Oil Hydra—and Other Lessons From the Fight Against Keystone XL How to Kill the Oil Hydra—and Other Lessons From the Fight Against Keystone XL

What the Indigenous-led victory over Keystone XL tells us about the struggle to stop oil pipelines.

Apr 22, 2021 / 2021 Year in Review / David Treuer

Chile Farm

Climate Change and Capitalism Are Forcing Chilean Farmers to Abandon Their Land Climate Change and Capitalism Are Forcing Chilean Farmers to Abandon Their Land

Severe drought and a privatized water system have left small growers high and dry.

Apr 21, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Agostino Petroni and Sandali Handagama

Migrants at the US-Mexico border

Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum

As climate change accelerates, it will become increasingly untenable to reduce US immigration and asylum policy to a question of border security.

Apr 21, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Zoë Carpenter

Oil Rig

Humanity Faces a Climate Emergency—Shouldn’t That Be News? Humanity Faces a Climate Emergency—Shouldn’t That Be News?

A sense of catastrophe has faded even as the environmental emergency has intensified.

Apr 20, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Iowa Derecho

Crises Collide: Homeless in America When Climate Disaster Strikes Crises Collide: Homeless in America When Climate Disaster Strikes

In some cases, solutions to homelessness and the climate crisis might be one and the same.

Apr 20, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Andrew McCormick

The Last Whites

The Last Whites The Last Whites

The long goodbye.

Apr 16, 2021 / OppArt / John Cuneo

Burning American Flag

Climate Migration Has Come to the United States Climate Migration Has Come to the United States

After living through a spate of record-breaking wildfires, some Californians are opting to leave the state.

Apr 16, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Kate Wheeling

Hurricane Mitch

A Tale of 2 Climate Migrants A Tale of 2 Climate Migrants

The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, and yet it does not always welcome climate migrants

Apr 14, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Jeremy Deaton

President Joe Biden

Will Biden’s Foreign Policy Sap His Domestic Policy? Will Biden’s Foreign Policy Sap His Domestic Policy?

The US can’t afford to be the “indispensable nation” abroad while rebuilding at home.

Apr 13, 2021 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Louisiana Sea-Level Rise

How Warming Oceans Are Accelerating the Climate Crisis How Warming Oceans Are Accelerating the Climate Crisis

Humans have locked in at least 20 feet of sea level rise—can we still fix it?

Apr 13, 2021 / Covering Climate Now / Harold R. Wanless

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