Himalayan Artists Preserve Climate-Endangered Flowers
Watercolor renditions of orchids, rhododendrons, and other Indigenous blooms help protect the region鈥檚 floral biodiversity in the face of climate change.
Climate Change
How Young Climate Activists Are Confronting Power
A newly formed organization called Climate Defiance is challenging the Biden administration to live up to its climate change promises.
Are Swimmable Cities a Climate Solution?
Urban waterways have many benefits鈥攂ut they鈥檙e not accessible to all communities.
Power Outages Can Be Life-Threatening for Disabled Youth
Access to electrical power during outages is an equity issue for low-income California residents, especially those with children who rely on medical devices.
How Mobile Home Communities Are Adapting for Climate Change
From Vermont to Montana, officials and residents in manufactured housing communities are working to mitigate flood risk.
Could Breadfruit Help Trinidad and Tobago Brace for Climate Change?
Despite its colonial origins, breadfruit is now the subject of international research to evaluate its potential as a staple crop in a warming world.
Canada鈥檚 First Nations Protect Millions of Acres of Their Lands
Indigenous-led efforts are conserving land on an unprecedented scale while enabling scientists to study threats to northern ecosystems.
Community Land Trusts Build Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing
鈥淪torms are nature鈥檚 way of causing gentrification,鈥� so one couple bought property damaged by Hurricane Irma and placed it in a public trust.
Hopeful Signs of Climate Culture Shift at COP27
Favianna Rodriguez says the cultural successes at COP27 overshadow the political failures.
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The Climate Injustices鈥攁nd Solutions鈥擲hared by Puerto Rico and Jackson, Mississippi
Solidarity can go a long way in connecting communities working through similar challenges.
We the People Are All in This Together
Changing course to transform into an ecological civilization will take international cooperation. But the U.S and China are setting a poor example.
Residents Are a City鈥檚 Best Source of Climate Change Data
Cities across the U.S. are looking to citizen science for data on heat waves and other climate impacts.
Murmurations: Accountable to Earth
In their September column, adrienne maree brown asks how we can hear beyond the human cry for help.
We Now Have a Universal Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment
The UN declaration is more than moral posturing. Resolutions like this one have led to effective treaties and national laws.
Taking Action on Climate Change Requires Coming Together
Climate action, racial justice, and economic reform ultimately all have the same end goal. Our movements should unite behind it.
What if Legal Personhood Included Plants, Rivers, and the Planet?
A new podcast explores the rights of nature movement and its potential to shift Western legal doctrine around environmental protection.
2022鈥檚 Imperative: Letting Go of Our Past to Birth Our Future
Building an ecological civilization is the only way forward to saving both the planet and humanity. And time is running out.
Noam Chomsky Talks Climate and Racial Justice
A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity鈥檚 prospects for emerging into a livable future.
Immigrants Like Me Experience Two Ends of the Climate Crisis
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
Whose Voices Are (and Aren鈥檛) Being Heard at COP26?
鈥淐OP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur.鈥�
Every Fraction of a Degree of Global Warming Matters
鈥淭he climate crisis is here and with 1.2掳C bringing so much suffering already, fighting for 1.5掳C is already a compromise.鈥�
Vanessa Nakate on What Irks and Inspires Her Climate Activism
A conversation with the Ugandan activist about her new book and how it helped her see climate change differently.
The Global South Widens the Frame on Climate
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on the necessity of real representation in the climate movement.
Building a Beautiful Climate Future Starts with Imagination
鈥淚f we鈥檙e going to make the world over, let鈥檚 do it right. Let鈥檚 make a masterpiece.鈥�
What Does Rest Look Like in a Climate Crisis?
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into the restless mind, kept awake by the climate crisis.
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