If media outlets can’t find a better way of delivering bad news, people will tune out.

Forget your carbon footprint; the best thing to do about climate change is join a group focused on collective action.

Monkeypox and Covid aren’t a zero-sum game. They’re more connected than they first appear. Acknowledging that can help us fight both.

Disaster preparedness doesn’t need to be right-wing and individualistic. It does, however, need to be paired with policy.

The self-immolation of an environmental activist in Washington, D.C., revives an uncomfortable debate over the practice—and how we should talk about it.

Can we preserve ancient monuments without losing sight of what global warming is doing to humans living today?

Bulk-buying beans, potassium iodide, and guns won’t save you from Vladimir Putin being crazy. They’re just a way to shore up Americans’ individualist delusions.

It makes sense to be wary of corporate puff pieces. But there are genuine victories to celebrate, often at the local or international level. We need those stories as fuel for the fight.

Liberating the pigs from a Smithfield facility was just the first step in Wayne Hsiung and Paul Darwin Picklesimer’s grand plan. Now they want their legal case to start a sea change in animal rights.

On both Covid precautions and climate ethics, our lack of social consensus creates stress. But it’s also an opportunity to hone our powers of persuasion.

They’re responsible for a massive undercounting of Covid deaths in America. But that’s just the latest reason to get rid of this poorly regulated, overly politicized, and utterly unscientific relic of the colonial era.

Panic over predators sets humans up to have exactly the wrong kind of relationship with the ailing environment.

As critics debate Adam McKay’s latest film, perhaps the better question is where movies about climate change should go from here.

The data we have suggests a connection—and the problem may be growing.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

For young people, climate politics are understandably personal.

How one 90-year ecological mystery reveals the complexities of conservation—and the problems with the “endangered species” approach.

Polls consistently show that we’re worried about climate change, but many of us—especially politicians—don’t act like it.

I was a corn detasseler as a teenager. But increasingly weird weather patterns are making the timing of this crucial task harder and harder to predict.

Only persistence can bring sweeping change. But that sweeping change sometimes comes sooner than you expect.