Progress 2025: Climate and Environment

A Progress 2025 Vision for Climate Justice

As Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastate the Southeastern U.S., Antonia Juhasz articulates a just vision for how to fix our climate.

| Oct 10, 2024

Journalist Peter Yeung explains to Sonali Kolhatkar how Los Cedros remains protected against extractive industries thanks to its constitutional rights.

Video | Rights of Nature | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Los Cedros | Progress 2025

Does a Forest Have Rights? In Ecuador, It Does.

Journalist Peter Yeung explains how Los Cedros has remained protected for years thanks to Ecuador’s constitution extending rights to nature.

| Sep 13, 2024

The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador

The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

Peter Yeung | Sep 11, 2024

The Movement to Ban Plastic Production

Frontline communities continue to pay for plastics—from production to pollution. Now advocates are trying to reach consensus on a global plastics treaty before it’s too late.

Khadija Ahmed | Jul 22, 2024

Green Cities Are for People, Not Profit

Across the country, activists are battling gentrification and working to build sustainable cities that don’t displace working-class communities of color.

Alexia Leclercq | Jul 11, 2024

A Cross-State Movement to Hold Railroads Accountable

Facing the ongoing impacts of pollution and derailments, activists in East Palestine, Ohio, and Baltimore are teaming up to pursue justice for their communities.

Nicole Fabricant | Jul 8, 2024

As Summer Swelters, Can Workers Get Heat Protections?

As temperatures continue to rise, California workers, worker protection groups, and state regulators are making progress on implementing heat regulations.

s.e. smith | Jul 1, 2024

Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.

Breanna Draxler | Dec 7, 2023

The Vision of a Renewable Rikers Island in NYC

This community-developed plan could serve as a model for how to simultaneously decarcerate and decarbonize.

Claire Greenburger | Nov 7, 2023

Jamaica’s Climate-Resilient Coastline

Wetlands and mangrove forests absorb water, waves, and salt to provide economic security for coastal communities.

Gladstone H Taylor | Oct 17, 2023

Taking Back the Power (Literally)

Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.

Brooke Anderson | Sep 7, 2023

An illustrated landscape shows a bansai tree, savanna ant, construction equipment to clear-cut a forest, and riverbeds.

Stop Planting Trees

Long touted as an environmental panacea, mass tree planting can actually do more harm than good.

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Aug 31, 2023

Biodiversity on the Ballot in Ecuador

After a decade of resistance, Ecuadorians will finally vote to preserve Yasuní National Park or allow oil exploitation.

Gabriela Barzallo | Jul 31, 2023

The Young People Reshaping Wildfire Policy

FireGeneration advocates for Indigenous-led, youth-powered approaches to the wildfire crisis

Colleen Hagerty | Jul 10, 2023

One Climate Disaster, Three Different Responses

When record-setting rain fell in Brazil, responses varied between communities—and so did the number of lives lost.

Ricardo Lobato Felizola | Jun 15, 2023

Sacred Activism

Like water itself, the protection of this vital resource takes many different forms.

Breanna Draxler | May 18, 2023

From Farmworkers to Land Healers

On most days, Sandra de Leon prunes grapevines in Northern California’s wealthiest vineyards. But today she is dressed head to toe in a yellow fire-resistant suit, helmet, safety goggles, and

Brooke Anderson | Apr 25, 2023

Why Intergenerational Thinking Is Essential to Heal the Planet

As humankind grapples with climate change, communities around the world show what’s possible by planning hundreds of years ahead.

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues | Apr 4, 2023

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.

Jade Prévost-Manuel | Jan 2, 2023

Healing the Land and Themselves

Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.

Michaela Haas | Dec 29, 2022

Two women working on transplanting rice crops

Analysis | Progress 2025 | Climate

Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India

Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.

Rebecca George | Dec 14, 2022

Nigerian Climate Action Group Trades Trash for Cash

Youth climate activists create companies to transform waste management and give hope.

Samuel Ajala | Dec 7, 2022

Louisiana Communities Show the Many Contours of Climate Migration

Organizers are tackling climate displacement from all angles—advocating for climate-displaced people, providing them with resources, and making their communities more climate-resilient.

Oisakhose Aghomo | Nov 21, 2022

I Paddle Boston’s Mystic River as Sackett v. EPA Threatens to Roll Back Critical Protections

Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.

Anna Laird Barto | Nov 1, 2022

Opinion | Environmental Justice | Byhalia Pipeline | NEPA

Manchin’s Pipeline Loss Shows Frontline and Green Groups Are Gaining Steam

“We launched our movement to breathe clean air … amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting ‘we can’t breathe’ and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.”

Justin J. Pearson | Oct 28, 2022

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