Climate

Four New Books for the Biosphere

Venture into the woods this autumn with books from Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, Nate Blakeslee, Ashley Dawson and Gleb Raygorodetsky.

In These Times Staff

Trump Chides Puerto Rico Expenses While U.S. Gives $15 Billion a Year to Fossil Fuel Companies

The president's upside-down priorities were on full display during his visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

Kate Aronoff

Puerto Rico and Why Climate Reparations Must Know No Borders

U.S. citizenship must not be a litmus test for who deserves to survive the climate crisis.

Sarah Lazare

Puerto Rico’s Isolated Mountain Communities Are Rapidly Running Out of Food And Water

The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

Eliván Martínez Mercado

When Green Jobs Come at the Expense of Unions

A declining Rust Belt town turned to wind power—and away from organized labor.

Yana Kunichoff

How Puerto Rico Recovered Before

The island's New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.

Kate Aronoff

“These Disasters Aren’t Natural Anymore”: A Dispatch from Puerto Rico After Maria

A conversation with Xiomara Caro Diaz of the Center for Popular Democracy about the devastation wrought by climate change and austerity.

Kate Aronoff