A Victory at Bad River
The Bad River Tribe has taken on a billion-dollar Canadian oil pipeline company to defend manoomin and the fresh waters that sustain it—and us all.
Climate Justice
YES! Media’s climate justice coverage centers community efforts to stop the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, adapt to impacts from climate catastrophe, and build resilience. This takes the form of legal and legislative efforts as well as direct action to increase healthy and reliable access to water, power, clean energy, green space, and not just shelter, but home and community. Climate solutions need to be many and varied, tailored to individual communities and the people who call them home.
The Trees Are Speaking
Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.
Terra Affirma: A Hybrid Wild
Not all bedrock is stone.
Activists Take Back the Climate
Trump’s election was a huge setback for the climate. Here’s how activists are fighting back.
Self-Determined: Climate Resilience Is Sacred
Real sustainability prioritizes sovereignty, community resilience, and protection from authoritarianism.
Clawing Back Public Protections of Our Land, Air, and Climate
The Center for Biological Diversity is suing DOGE in a first of its kind lawsuit to protect government-funded environmental work.
Turn Anger into Climate Activism This Election, Says Jane Fonda
According to the actor and activist: “The choice is very clear: Do we vote for the future, or do we vote for burning up the planet?”
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.
Lessons in Climate Adaptation From Florida’s Hurricane Recovery
When Hurricane Ian hit Florida in late September 2022, it took more than 100 lives, becoming the deadliest storm to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Ian
Pushing Back Against Disaster Capitalism in Florida
A coalition of churches has achieved some successes in resisting and mitigating against rent gouging and displacement after Hurricane Ian.
Taking Back the Power (Literally)
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
Community-Powered Solar in Puerto Rico
With climate-fueled hurricanes in their past and future, Puerto Ricans are taking back their power.
Justice at the Tap
For Jackson, Flint, and the Navajo Nation, clean water shouldn’t be a pipe dream.
Doulas Work on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
As trusted community figures, doulas are increasingly helping their clients stay safe during heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires, all of which put pregnant people at higher risk.
Labor and Climate Form a More Perfect Union
Environmental and labor activists have found success collaborating at the local and state levels. Now they have their eyes on federal policy.
Individuals Are Not to Blame for the Climate Crisis
The fossil fuel industry uses greenwashing and woke-washing to shirk their own responsibility.
Justice at the Heart of Climate Activism
The modern environmental justice movement understands the health of the planet and well-being of people are connected.
Care Workers Demand Federal Support as First Responders in Climate Crises
Domestic care workers have been overlooked in the economy and as political actors for too long.
To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism
Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
What Solar Energy Policies Can Do for Low-Income Households
Two words: energy justice.
The Queer-Led Groups Modeling a New Form of Land Access
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
“How To Blow Up a Pipeline” is not in fact a manual, but rather a treatise inviting the climate movement to widespread sabotage and property destruction, and it is surprisingly compelling.
Generation Z Is Voting on Climate Change in 2020
Young voters are intimately aware that they will be forced to bear the full effects of climate change—and they’re voting with that in mind.
The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism
The energy and intersectionality of youth along with the experience and engagement of elders are putting climate issues at the forefront of the 2020 elections.
Virtual or Not, a Passover Seder for the Earth
This year, many people will have Passover Seder over the internet rather than in the physical company of friends and family.
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