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A big machine lifts logs from a stack of raw timber

Wood isn’t the climate-friendly material you think it is

A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.

Max Graham Economics July 7, 2023

As Amazon eliminates plastic packaging abroad, it’s using even more in the US

A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations.

Joseph Winters Accountability April 4, 2024

digital collage of three people on a beach walking away from the camera with a setting sun and seaweed border

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.

Ayurella Horn-Muller Food and Agriculture July 25, 2025

A protester dressed a butcher stabs a model of Earth as part of a demonstration calling on people to go vegan

What would it take to end the meat culture wars?

A COP28 proposal to eat less meat would come amid a right-wing backlash against alternatives.

Max Graham Food December 6, 2023

A woman in traditional Sámi dress -- a red, white, and blue shawl tied at the neck with an elaborate silver clasp and matching head covering -- sits at a conference table with a microphone. She looks off to the side as if listening to someone.

UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture

"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands."

Tristan Ahtone Global Indigenous Affairs Desk October 18, 2024

Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.

Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.

Katie Myers Accountability February 1, 2024

a close up of fingers holding a tweezer with a small, red tick captured between the tongs. Two other small, red ticks crawl near the opening of the bottle

As ticks spread, the US is getting closer to understanding the true extent of Lyme disease

A revised CDC reporting system led to a 70 percent increase in reported cases of Lyme disease, but experts say more can be done.

Zoya Teirstein Health February 28, 2024

Group of people protesting working with toxic chemicals, two holding signs

Forever chemicals are poisoning your insurance

As commercial insurers cut PFAS coverage, small businesses and consumers will swallow the cost.

Helen Santoro, The Lever Business June 19, 2024

‘Extreme victory’: Years of organization leads to the shuttering of a toxic polluter in south Memphis

The closure of one of the nation's most toxic medical equipment sterilization facilities will reduce residents' exposure to carcinogenic ethylene oxide.

Lylla Younes Regulation September 1, 2023

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