How to Raise Climate-Resilient Kids
In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses.
Climate Crisis
The Rush to Rescue Wildlife From Australia’s Fires
Photographer John Moore documents the surviving wildlife and the volunteers and veterinary workers who have responded to the country's fires
When Environmentalists and the Fishing Industry Team Up, Ocean Habitats Win
An inspiring collaboration on the Pacific Coast blew fishery conservation goals out of the water.
Citizen Scientists Track How Plastic Pollution Impacts Birds
To get a big-picture perspective on the plastics that plague beaches, scientists team up with volunteers along the California Coast.
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis
How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants
The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over
We are entering humanity’s defining decade, and 2020 is when we have to make the hard decisions.
For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
“Our seeds are more than just food for us. Yes, they are nutrition. But they’re also… spirituality,” says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a
What We Could Do With a $5 Carbon Charge on Your Flight
Like it or not, the world will be flying more in the decades ahead—and flights are for many in the developed world the largest part of an individual’s (and often
Oh, Christmas Tree… Fake Christmas Tree?
It’s the holiday season again, and in the midst of making to-do lists and prepping for festive dinners, some people will once again ponder whether it is better for the
A Wish List From Climate Protesters in Seattle
The protesters were relatively chipper, if subdued, on this Monday morning—a fitting time of day for a meeting of the Sunrise Movement. This national youth-led effort is pushing the Green
Black Farmers Embrace Practices of Climate Resiliency
Chief Zogli looked weary as he scratched a notch in his doorpost to record the weather. “Still no rain,” he says with resignation. The chickens pecked lazily in the dust
How Youth Have Changed the Climate Movement
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” affirms the Oglala-Sioux version of a belief common to several indigenous cultures. To David Brower,
Alaska’s Melting Glaciers Tell the Story of Climate Change
The story of Alaska’s glacial retreat is plainly written across the landscape. Melting has left these slow-moving rivers of ice, while still spectacular, much diminished. And it is forcing us
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State’s attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It’s a landmark
5 Ways Communities Are Coping With Climate Anxiety
From action-oriented toolkits to talk therapy and meditation, these responses facilitate recovery, hope, and activism.
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