The Other Side of Trump’s Tariffs: Ghana’s Toxic Gold Rush The Other Side of Trump’s Tariffs: Ghana’s Toxic Gold Rush
As gold prices spike across the globe, illegal mining is exploding—and driving the west African country toward ecological collapse.
Sep 15, 2025 / Feature / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
AI Water Use Sucks Our Planet Dry AI Water Use Sucks Our Planet Dry
Computer centers swallow billions of gallons a year.
Aug 13, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper
The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard.
Jul 29, 2025 / StudentNation / Adelaide Parker
Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid Americans Are Concerned About Climate Change—but They Should Be Afraid
Americans still don’t comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat is—and journalists are partly to blame.
Jul 17, 2025 / Mark Hertsgaard
How to Save the Amazon How to Save the Amazon
Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.
Jun 12, 2025 / Jonathan Watts
Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk? Now That He’s Turned on Trump, Should Democrats Align With Elon Musk?
No! Hell no! Never! The enemy of your enemy is still a corrupt plutocrat who wants to destroy democracy.
Jun 9, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Peter Kuper’s Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us Peter Kuper’s Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us
Insectopolis explores the often-unseen—and rapidly disappearing—world we share.
May 29, 2025 / Steve Brodner
If You Think Multinational Mining Interests Want to Save the Environment, I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You If You Think Multinational Mining Interests Want to Save the Environment, I’ve Got a Bridge to Sell You
A sacred site for Native Americans is on the verge of being destroyed for profit, and profit alone—just one more colonial conquest of lands in the American West.
May 22, 2025 / Joshua Frank
Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished
The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him.
May 12, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet Thinking Like an Ancestor on a Burning Planet
A conversation with Olúfémi Táíwò about the struggle for racial and climate justice in the face of catastrophe.
May 5, 2025 / Q&A / Wen Stephenson