Latest Articles
-
![Cloud Weavers]()
![Cloud Weavers]()
Fiction: The Cloud Weaver’s Song
In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.
-
![A canary-yellow blow-up stands in front of New York State Attorney General's office. Protestors rally around it, while two security guards watch the scene.]()
![A canary-yellow blow-up stands in front of New York State Attorney General's office. Protestors rally around it, while two security guards watch the scene.]()
How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades
Science historian Benjamin Franta on the role economists played in the fossil fuel industry's decades-long disinformation campaign.
-
![Collage: an open book with blue cloudy sky on top of it]()
![Collage: an open book with blue cloudy sky on top of it]()
‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ and the world we cannot escape
There is something both very old and refreshingly new about Anthony Doerr’s epic tale of the climate crisis.
-
![Employees from a Radian Generation's operations and maintenance team change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels December 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. The 16.5 megawatt solar array, on what was once the largest pig farm in the northeast, is owned and operated by BlueWave Solar which feeds the generated electricity to homes and small businesses and to the Fay School and Phillips Academy Andover private schools.]()
![Employees from a Radian Generation's operations and maintenance team change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels December 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. The 16.5 megawatt solar array, on what was once the largest pig farm in the northeast, is owned and operated by BlueWave Solar which feeds the generated electricity to homes and small businesses and to the Fay School and Phillips Academy Andover private schools.]()
Not even a pandemic can stop solar’s epic growth
Lead by Texas and the Southeast, the U.S. added a record amount of solar power in 2020.
-
![Microsoft logo with a screwdriver and pliers on top of it]()
![Microsoft logo with a screwdriver and pliers on top of it]()
Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix
In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the company has committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents.
-
![a satellite view of the port of Los Angeles with many cargo ships out at sea]()
![a satellite view of the port of Los Angeles with many cargo ships out at sea]()
Cargo-ship congestion is bringing more dirty air to Southern California
Those supply-chain problems you’ve heard about? They have consequences for public health.
-
![Capitol building through a fence]()
![Capitol building through a fence]()
US corporations talk green but are helping derail major climate bill
Apple and Amazon are among dozens of companies whose lobbying groups are fighting to stop the Democrats’ reconciliation package.
-
![Illustration: Hands cupping water that drips into the Colorado River, cliffs in the background]()
![Illustration: Hands cupping water that drips into the Colorado River, cliffs in the background]()
The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights
"The basin is free-riding off of undeveloped tribal water rights."
-
![Texas Railroad Commission logo on top of scales with Earth and money on each side, Texas in background]()
![Texas Railroad Commission logo on top of scales with Earth and money on each side, Texas in background]()
Report: Texas oil and gas regulators are awash in fossil fuel money
Conflicts of interest plague the Texas Railroad Commission, a powerful agency charged with environmental protection in Lone Star oilfields.
-
![A Chinook salmon]()
![A Chinook salmon]()
States, tribes, and NGOs hold polluters accountable in a ‘tidal wave’ of greenwashing lawsuits
A new complaint from the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe adds to the list, alleging Seattle’s “green” hydropower kills fish.
