Environment & Health
The Essential Advocate, Philippe Sands Makes the Case for a New International Crime Called Ecocide
By Katie Surma
Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe
By James Bruggers
Warming Trends: Cacophonous Reefs, Vertical Gardens and an Advent Calendar Filled With Tiny Climate Protesters
By Katelyn Weisbrod
A ‘Polluter Pays’ Tax in Infrastructure Plan Could Jump-Start Languishing Cleanups at Superfund Sites
By David Hasemyer
A Life’s Work Bearing Witness to Humanity’s Impact on the Planet
The EPA Placed a Texas Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 2018. Why Is the Health Threat Still Unknown?
By Alejandra Martinez, KERA
A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic
By James Bruggers
‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth
By Marianne Lavelle
In San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood, Advocates Have Taken Air Monitoring Into Their Own Hands
By Elena Shao
New York’s Right to ‘a Healthful Environment’ Could Be Bad News for Fossil Fuel Interests
By Kristoffer Tigue
Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Warming Trends: Climate Divide in the Classroom, an All-Electric City and Rising Global Temperatures’ Effects on Mental Health
By Katelyn Weisbrod
A Bridge to Composting and Clean Air in South Baltimore
By Agya K. Aning
New Report Expects Global Emissions of Carbon Dioxide to Rebound to Pre-Pandemic High This Year
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Warming Trends: The BBC Introduces ‘Life at 50 Degrees,’ Helping African Farmers Resist Drought and Driftwood Provides Clues to Climate’s Past
By Katelyn Weisbrod
Diesel Emissions in Major US Cities Disproportionately Harm Communities of Color, New Studies Confirm
By Kristoffer Tigue
