Derrick Z. Jackson: Ripe for Disaster Declarations | Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data
It is clear that the opposition is willing to risk sacrificing lower-wage construction and farm workers to the sun’s brutality as executives count the cash in air conditioned offices.
Khadija Ahmed: The Movement to Ban Plastic Production
Frontline communities continue to pay for plastics—from production to pollution. Now advocates are trying to reach consensus on a global plastics treaty before it’s too late.
Edward Carver: Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Arrested in Greenland, May Face Extradition to Japan
The famed campaigner was en route to intercept a new 370-foot Japanese factory whaling ship in the North Pacific when Danish police in Greenland made the surprise arrest, citing an international warrant issued by Japan.
Aina Marzia: “Parable of the Sower” Is Now, Says Gen Z
Imminent drought, rising sea waters, destructive borders, a vanishing middle class, “smart drugs,” Big Pharma, privatized public schools and cities, and a governing body with the slogan “Make America Great Again.”
Susan Yeargin: How to keep yourself safe during expected heat waves this summer
A heat wave can pose risks for anyone who spends time outside, whether they’re runners, people who walk or cycle to work, outdoor workers or kids playing sports.
Gary Belan: The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines.
Julia Conley: Extreme Heat Expected to Impact Millions of Americans Again This Summer
“These are not your grandparents’ heatwaves,” said one meteorologist.
Dane Cervine: The Jeweled Net of Indra
the coal that fumes the electricity that plunges
the needle drifts in air that circles a globe that warms
the icecaps that melt into sea that shifts the current
that loves the wind
Derrick Z. Jackson: In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.
JESSICA GARCIA: ‘BLUELINING’ LEAVES CLIMATE VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES WITHOUT HOME INSURANCE
Insurers are pulling out of areas prone to climate risk — even as they insure the fossil fuel companies contributing to that risk.
Alexis Rhone Fancher: Snake/Holding Things Down
I’m going back to Lowe’s to get a bigger, longer snake, my lover says. Get a king snake, I whisper in his ear. I reach between his legs, cop a feel. Yeah, sure, he says, rolling his eyes. A king snake. He gives my roving hand a squeeze. Or would you prefer a boa constrictor?
KATIE MYERS: How Folklore Can Shape Our Climate Futures
As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together.
Video: Isabella Kirkland | The Beauty of Wildlife — And an Artistic Call to Protect it
Investigating humanity’s relationship to nature, she shares work that takes a creative stand against ecological despair — and quietly urges climate action through permanent images of vanishing wildlife.
IRENE LYLA LEE: The Future Is Feral—and Climate Resilient
To produce food in the face of climate change, we may need to learn from so-called weeds.
