Activism

Activists Target Public Relations Groups For Greenwashing Fossil Fuels

A firm called Clean Creatives published an “F-List” of firms for spreading misinformation. The PR giant Edelman pushed back, saying it had never erred on climate facts.

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York, The Financial Times

Inspired by King’s Words, Experts Say the Fight for Climate Justice Anywhere is a Fight for Climate Justice Everywhere

By James Bruggers

Warming Trends: Americans’ Alarm Grows About Climate Change, a Plant-Based Diet Packs a Double Carbon Whammy, and Making Hay from Plastic India

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

By Katie Surma

Amid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda

By Kristoffer Tigue, Ariel Gans

Why the Luster on Once-Vaunted ‘Smart Cities’ Is Fading

By Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360

An Energy Transition Needs Lots of Power Lines. This 1970s Minnesota Farmers’ Uprising Tried to Block One. What Can it Teach Us?

By Dan Gearino

An African American Community in Florida Blocked Two Proposed Solar Farms. Then the Florida Legislature Stepped In.

By Aman Azhar

In San Francisco’s Most Polluted Neighborhood, the Polluters Operate Without Proper Permits, Reports Say

By Elena Shao

A Dream of a Fossil Fuel-Free Neighborhood Meets the Constraints of the Building Industry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Year in Climate Photos

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In Deep Adaptation’s Focus on Societal Collapse, a Hopeful Call to Action

By Kiley Bense

The Essential Advocate, Philippe Sands Makes the Case for a New International Crime Called Ecocide

By Katie Surma

Climate Activists and Environmental Justice Advocates Join the Gerrymandering Fight in Ohio and North Carolina

By Marianne Lavelle

Scientists Join Swiss Hunger Strike to Raise Climate Alarm

By Bob Berwyn

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

By James Bruggers

COP Negotiators Demand Nations do More to Curb Climate Change, but Required Emissions Cuts Remain Elusive

By Bob Berwyn

The Young Climate Diplomats Fighting to Save Their Countries

By Delger Erdenesanaa

In a New Policy Statement, the Nation’s Physicists Toughen Their Stance on Climate Change, Stressing Its Reality and Urgency

By Marianne Lavelle