Ranchers and Tribes Unite Once Again to Fight the Keystone XL
A unique alliance among tribes, ranchers, and other landowners in Nebraska regroups to resist fossil fuel development like the Keystone XL.
Environment
After the March for Science, Keep Moving
This weekend鈥檚 march is a start. A climate scientist urges us to follow through in our personal lives as well as in our community.
How the Ancient Art of Rhetoric Can Help Defend Science
Climate scientists are learning how to choose their words carefully in response to inaccurate but emotive imagery.
5 Old-Fashioned Ways to Predict the Weather
Have you noticed how nature gives its own subtle forecast clues?
The Key to Feeding the World? It鈥檚 Healthy Soil
Conventional farming practices that degrade soil health undermine humanity鈥檚 ability to continue feeding everyone over the long run.
How to Turn Neighborhoods Into Hubs of Resilience
Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.
Extractive Economy Jobs Are Not the Good Jobs Tribes Were Promised
After the construction phase of the Keystone XL, only 35 employees would be needed to operate the pipeline.
What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know
A recent study predicts that in the next five years, more than one-third of Americans will not be able to afford their water.
Portland Public Schools First to Put Global Climate Justice in Classroom
Students learn about the front lines of global warming and how to be climate activists.
No Rural-Urban Divide Here: We All Want Good Jobs and Strong Local Economies
Local control is a foundational conservative principle鈥攂ut progressives also embrace it.
How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire
In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America?
ING Bank Just Divested Their DAPL Financing鈥擶e All Helped to Change Their Mind
Last month, bank officials met face to face with leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux, and this week they announced the bank had sold the loan at the request of tribal leaders.
How Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier
Over 100 studies have shown that being in nature鈥攐r even watching it in videos鈥攂enefits our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions.
This Invention Lets Rural Hondurans Clean Their Water鈥擜nd Own the Treatment Plants
What鈥檚 at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need.
Water Is Life: The Story of Standing Rock Won鈥檛 Go Away
The Dakota Access pipeline is set and oil will flow. But this is not the only fight about water, and Standing Rock is only one chapter somewhere in the middle of a long story.
As Police Evict Water Protectors, Tribes Vow to Continue the Fight
鈥淭his isn鈥檛 the end by any means. This is the spark. The whole world is waking up now.鈥�
Why the People Who Grow Your Food Are Worried About Scott Pruitt
Pruitt鈥檚 approach to the EPA is likely to threaten farmworkers, who are highly exposed to the effects of climate change, including heat stress and increased pesticide use.
The Student-Built Website That Keeps Government Climate Data Safe
Since Trump鈥檚 election, scientists have been scrambling to save climate change data sets. And one Michigan graduate student thought the more copies, the better.
Pruitt Ignored Cries to Regulate Fracking in Okla. Now Residents Face Big Oil on Their Own
The Senate just confirmed Scott Pruitt to run the EPA. But as residents reported major damage from fracking-related earthquakes, the then-attorney general closed his office鈥檚 environmental enforcement unit.
Call for Submissions: It鈥檚 Time for a Just Transition
Send us your ideas by March 13.
From the Editors: Why Science Can鈥檛 Be Silent
Up against the White House鈥檚 鈥渁lternative facts鈥� and attempts to hide climate data, new allies鈥攃itizens and science鈥攃an prevail against politicians and corporations.
Science Isn鈥檛 Just for Scientists鈥擶e Can All Take Part
The internet and new technology are reviving the role citizens can play in documenting the world around us.
The Carbon Tax Debate Isn鈥檛 Going Away. What Would the Ideal Bill Look Like?
After opposing a Washington state carbon tax in November, climate justice advocates are setting the stage for a more thorough initiative to address both climate change and inequality.
In Defense of Standing Rock Reporter Jenni Monet鈥攁nd All Journalists
If you鈥檝e valued our Standing Rock coverage over the months, tell the Morton County State鈥檚 Attorney to drop all charges against Monet. Journalism is not a crime.
Seattle Just Divested Billions From Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline
Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.
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