Scientists have released a stark new warning about the disappearance of billions of birds in the U.S. and Canada. A new study published in...

BY GARY EDMONDSON This one Earth we share with our many cousins is entering parlous times. Last summer The Guardian interviewed Mami Mizutori, The UN secretary-general’s special...

The Media And Climate Activists Must ‘Name And Shame’ Laggards, Says UN Special Envoy BY MARK HERTSGAARD As world leaders converge on New York City for...

BY FROMA HARROP One word best describes Donald Trump’s environmental policy: sick. The president has an obsessive urge to ravage nature just for the heck of it. Exhibit A is his crusade to weaken environmental regulations against the very wishes of those being regulated. Trump seems bent on destruction as an end in itself. He has worked to destroy America’s ties with its traditional allies. He’s striving to destroy the Affordable Care Act – and, […]

BY JIM HIGHTOWER For millions of people around the globe – especially young people – the pressing issue of our time is this: The world is on fire! On fire with climate change, creating a new and intensifying norm of deadly weather extremes that make a dystopian future a distinct possibility – constant wildfires, rising seas, desertification, global crop failures, widespread hunger, water shortages, etc. Luckily, we are a sentient species with the scientific ability […]