global warming
Culture
The Language of Extinction
When wildfires destroy habitats, more than species are lost.
Holly Haworth
Dispatch
Climate Change Is Fueling a Farming Boom in Alaska
It's becoming easier for the northern state to grow its own food—and more necessary.
Yereth Rosen
Culture
Thirty Years Ago, In These Times Predicted Our Climate Future
A 1989 article sketched out a worst-case vision of the future. Things got even worse than we thought.
In These Times Editors
Feature
Beyond Fluorescent Bulbs: 4 Things Millennials Can Do To Fight Climate Change
From running for office to taking direct action, an imperiled generation must take matters into its own hands.
Samuel Miller-McDonald
Rural America
Blacks, Latinos and Indians Think About Climate Change in Ways that Most Other Americans Do Not
Joseph Bullington
Feature
Don’t Retweet Lloyd Blankfein
Goldman Sachs CEOs are not your friends—even if they believe in climate change.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Why the Hell Did the New York Times Just Hire a Climate Denier?
New columnist Bret Stephens writes drivel as the world burns.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Trump May Start Pushing a Carbon Tax. It’s a Trap.
A carbon tax at the expense of regulation is just what the fossil-fuel industry wants.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Trump’s Budget Will Be a Disaster for the Climate—And Not Just in the Ways You Think
From increased military spending to tax cuts for the wealthy, everything about the new administration's economic agenda seems tailor-made to help the planet burn.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Scott Pruitt Is the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Manchurian Candidate
Soon-to-be-released emails may show just how deep the newly confirmed EPA administrator's ties go.
Kate Aronoff
Rural America
Community Rights: Because Climate Conferences Won’t Stop Climate Change
Thomas Linzey
Feature
The GOP Is Trying to Kill You
With Donald Trump at the helm, Republicans are readying to unleash holy hell through public policies.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Bill McKibben: Where the Climate Movement Can Still Make Progress, Even Under President Trump
Moving forward won't be easy, but we can help prevent the worst.
Bill McKibben
Feature
Donald Trump May Be President, But You Can Still Take Action on Climate Change
Individual steps alone won't fix the climate—but they're an easy way to start.
Emily Schwartz Greco
Feature
Climate Activists Must Stop Donald Trump at Home—And Go on Offense Abroad
There's no compromising with the far right—but progress can still be made around the world, and at the local and state levels.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Why The Left Doesn’t Want A Carbon Tax (Or at Least Not This One)
The battle over a Washington state ballot initiative previews the future of the climate debate.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Donald Trump’s Energy Adviser Doesn’t Know How Electricity Works
And other takeaways from yesterday's debate between Clinton and Trump’s energy advisers.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Hillary Clinton Is in Her Own Form of Climate Denial
New data show the need for much more aggressive policies.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
House Republicans Are Trying to Quash the Investigation of Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up
The climate action groups and state Attorneys General leading the charge against Exxon are now facing subpoenas.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
In the War Against Climate Change, Physics Isn’t the Enemy—It’s Corporations and the Far Right
Bill McKibben wants a World War II-style mobilization against climate change. But if it's a war, it's a class war.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
Activists Push the Democrats for Real Solutions on Climate Change
The Democrats' climate platform beats the Republicans', but it doesn't go far enough.
Kate Aronoff
Rural America
“We’ve Broken the Planet”: A Case for Liberation Ecology and the Rights of Nature
Thomas Linzey
Rural America
The Alberta Wildfire: Heating Up the Blogosphere
John Collins
Feature
Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism
The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.
Slavoj Žižek
Feature
Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials?
Today's youth are coming of age in the age of extinction
Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale
Rural America
The New Economics of Plenitude
Juliet B. Schor
Feature
For FERC’s Sake, Regulate
The most important government agency you’ve never heard of has never met a fracking lobbyist it didn’t like.
Justin Mikulka
Feature
The People’s Climate March: This Generation’s March on Washington?
The climate justice movement is preparing for what could be its biggest mobilization yet. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Nick Engelfried
New Report Factors Humidity Into Climate Change Equation
Hannah Gelbort
Viewpoint
I Know Weather Porn When I See It
This winter, the sensationalized coverage of the cold distracted from the realities of climate change.
Susan J. Douglas
Feature
How the Rich Ruin the Environment
The solution? Curb overconsumption and overwork.
Alyssa Battistoni
Dispatch
Boulder Electrified
Corporate interests and environmentalists face off in a Boulder, Colo. vote over ecofriendly public energy.
Nat Stein
Dispatch
Green Hot American Summer
Late July brings a wave of climate demonstrations.
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Feature
It’s Not Easy Being Blue and Green
Labor and environmentalists face off over the Keystone XL pipeline.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
What’s Speeding Global Warming
Want to save the world? Eat less meat.
David Sirota
Dispatch
Giant Green Steps
What needs to happen to pass global warming legislation?
Theo Anderson
Feature
Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
The presidential candidates aren't so keen on addressing the survival of humanity.
Noam Chomsky
Dispatch
Global Warming Out in the Cold
Controversies and weird weather damage climate science's credibility.
Theo Anderson