The Climate Movement Has a Recruiting and Retention Problem – Here’s How We Fix It
Bringing more people into the climate struggle starts with transforming movement culture and opening diverse paths to entry.
A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought
Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
‘Concrete Coffins’: Surviving Extreme Heat Behind Bars
Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.
The Climate Crisis Is Most Detrimental to the Black Community
As the only key to being insulated from the worst aspects of climate change in its current form is through financial stability, the economic fragility that has been a hallmark…
‘I wasn’t sentenced to be cooked’: Heat desperation in a Texas prison
Politicians in Texas denied air conditioning for prisons in May. Now temperatures of 100 F and higher are killing incarcerated people.
How Suing the US Government Can Empower the Climate Movement
As the youth-led climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States heads to trial, plaintiff Nathan Baring discusses the important role legal action can play within a movement.
Bernie Sanders: This Year Is Set to be the Hottest in History. Congress Must Act Now
If there is not bold, immediate action to address the climate crisis, the quality of life that we are leaving our kids is very much in question
Iraq’s Climate Crisis
America's War for Oil and the Great Mesopotamian Dustbowl.
On This 4th of July We Need to Declare a War of Independence From Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, kicked off the Revolutionary War in earnest, which the Continental Army…
East Coast Wildfires Put Incarcerated People on Frontlines of Climate Crisis
More than 150 detention facilities experienced “hazardous” air last week, according to an analysis by The Appeal. As wildfires have gotten worse, prisoners are facing a unique threat.
The Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of its Most Livable Environment
The data suggests the world is fast approaching a tipping point, after which even small increases in average global temperature will begin to have dramatic effects.
Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet
September 11th, Climate-Change-Style.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species
The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic…
New York Reports Worst Air Quality in the World as Smoke Creeps Along the Coast
Canadian wildfires send smoke and air pollution to more than 55 million Americans.