Climate

When Prisons Are Toxic to Both Humanity and the Environment

Activists are taking aim at mass incarceration, environmental pollution and the toxic prisons where the two problems meet.

John Washington

The Case Against Using the GDP as a Measure of Economic Health

The GDP has always been a bitterly contested yardstick, explains Ehsan Masood in a new history.

Chris Lehmann

America First, Planet be Damned: Trump Calls for Orgy of Extraction in North Dakota Energy Speech

John Collins

Big Oil Plots to Exclude Public from Public Land Auctions

Steve Horn

Is Bernie Sanders Right That It’s Time to Phase Out Nuclear Energy?

30 years after Chernobyl, some say we need nuclear power to stop climate change.

Will Boisvert and Jim Riccio

Why We Must Make Green Energy a Public Good

A 'Green Tea' coalition of conservatives and environmentalists are offering market-based alternatives to fossil fuels—but creating an equitable climate future will require public-sector solutions

Kate Aronoff

Sowing Insecurity: Food and Agriculture in a Time of Climate Crisis

Zoe W. Brent, Nick Buxton and Annie Shattuck