Environmental Issues

Clear-Cutting Our Future

Clear-Cutting Our Future Clear-Cutting Our Future

Deforestation is destroying the lungs of our planet.

Nov 5, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper

A TV reporter braces against the wind as Hurricane Irma approaches in Miami, Florida, on September 10, 2017.

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

Climate Disasters Are Traumatizing Brazil’s Children

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

The COP30 logo is displayed at a preparatory meeting bringing together ministers responsible for climate negotiations in Brasília, Brazil, on October 13, 2025.

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

A group of Indigenous people is leading a demonstration for the climate organized in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.

Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers Coming Sunday: The People Behind the Climate Numbers

The next phase of The 89 Percent Project profiles climate’s supermajority.

Oct 23, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

Smoke streams out of coal power plant in Kentucky.

The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal The Rise, Reign, and Fall of American Coal

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his version of a great America.

Oct 21, 2025 / Erik Loomis

Trump’s AI Deregulation Is His Oppenheimer Moment

Trump’s AI Deregulation Is His Oppenheimer Moment Trump’s AI Deregulation Is His Oppenheimer Moment

He has chosen to unleash a powerful and potentially cataclysmic new technology on the world with no regard for consequences.

Oct 20, 2025 / Feature / Michael T. Klare

The Stargate AI data center under construction in Abilene, Texas, on September 23, 2025.

AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How. AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.

It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.

Oct 17, 2025 / Delaney Nolan

What Was the Cybertruck?

What Was the Cybertruck? What Was the Cybertruck?

Elon Musk’s car from space offered a vision for a sustainable and autonomous future. All along, it was as awkward, easily bruised, and volatile as the entrepreneur himself.

Oct 16, 2025 / Feature / Maya Vinokour

President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on September 23, 2025, in New York City.

Reporting the Truth When Politicians Lie Reporting the Truth When Politicians Lie

With the global rise of organized misinformation campaigns, outlets should embrace “the truth sandwich” and place a false claim between the actual facts.

Oct 9, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard

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