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Frida Berrigan: Preparing for Scarcity

The truck wheel’s inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the pond’s late summer muck. After so many hot weeks without rain, the water had dried up and the garbage was completely exposed.

September 25, 2025 · 4 Comments

Tom Engelhardt: A Potentially World-Ending President

A Coming Hell on Earth?

September 10, 2025 · 4 Comments

Patrice Taddonio: 10 Documentaries on the Science, Politics and Impact of Our Changing Climate

From early research into climate change by fossil fuel companies, to the organizations that fought the scientific establishment to shift the climate conversation in the U.S., to the role of climate change in deadly American wildfires.

June 20, 2025 · 6 Comments

Video: White Grass

In Mongolia, 10 year old Munkhjargal dreams of following in her father’s footsteps as a horse trainer. Unfortunately, her entire way of life is threatened by an increasingly common phenomenon … Continue reading

October 26, 2024 · 7 Comments

Bill McKibben: To Avoid Utter Ruin, We Must Turn Off the Fossil Fuel Volcano

We need to stand in awe for a moment before the scope of Earth’s long history. And then we need to get the hell to work.

September 23, 2024 · 11 Comments

Video: Lessons from people already adapting to the climate crisis

The Maasai people have lived sustainably off the savanna for centuries, raising cattle for sustenance and income. Climate activist Dorcas Naishorua paints a picture of how the climate crisis is threatening their way of life — and calls for local and international support as they’re forced to adapt to a changing environment.

August 24, 2024 · 2 Comments

Tom Engelhardt: The Candidate from Hell

As president, he would undoubtedly prove to be a first-class global heat machine and voting for him would be the slow-motion equivalent of putting an atomic weapon in the Oval Office.

August 16, 2024 · 6 Comments

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.”

July 23, 2024 · 3 Comments

John J. Berger: A National Climate Action Plan

Heat waves of exceptional severity and duration are now occurring simultaneously in many areas of the world.

June 21, 2024 · Leave a comment

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.

June 16, 2024 · 6 Comments

Julia Conley: Extreme Heat Expected to Impact Millions of Americans Again This Summer

“These are not your grandparents’ heatwaves,” said one meteorologist. 

June 3, 2024 · 4 Comments

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.

May 23, 2024 · 6 Comments

Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around

Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Stan Cox: As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Avert Their Eyes

The Earth’s not just steadily warming; it’s heating up at an ever-faster pace.

February 6, 2024 · 1 Comment

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