Climate

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

How Corporate Science and Alternative Facts Limit Our Reality

John Ikerd

After Irma, Can Private Utilities Be Trusted to Rebuild?

There’s an opportunity post-Irma to revolutionize Florida’s power supply, but Big Energy is not likely to rise to the occasion.

Kate Aronoff