This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over thirty percent of the residents in the Navajo Nation do not have access to running water, according to a recent study from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. To…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Currently, water stress affects more than 2 billion people around the world, a figure that is projected to rise. Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Average global food prices have gone up by 2.6 percent annually in the past two decades. If that trend continues, not only does it threaten a baseline quality of life as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you care deeply about both environmental and racial justice, the way food is produced in the U.S. is far, far from ideal. To begin with, industrial farming has negative environmental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2016, the U.S. generated 42 million metric tons of plastic waste, more than any other country in the world. This startling number is one of the key takeaways from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A massive force is reshaping the fashion industry: secondhand clothing. According to a new report, the U.S. secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. European agriculture produces an abundance of high quality food, but also massive amounts of waste from crops and farm animals, including about 1.4 billion tonnes of manure each year. Farm…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Growing up in Colombia, Moriel Arango spent nearly every weekend on his father’s sustainable farm, about an hour from their home in the city of Cali. There, in the rural,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood – water – is disappearing, placing one of the world’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Solar has become a staple of the U.S. power generation mix in the last decade. Now that the industry is maturing, it’s time to have a tough conversation: The solar industry needs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Everglades are a vast network of subtropical freshwater wetland and estuarine ecosystems that once spanned the length and breadth of south Florida. Fifty years of dredging and diking, starting…