This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Jan. 7, 2025, people across the Los Angeles area watched in horror as powerful winds began spreading wildfires through neighborhood after neighborhood. Over three weeks, the fires destroyed more…
When a flood, wildfire or other natural disaster hits, evacuating residents are much more likely to grab important documents, family photos, water and clothes than birth control, condoms or menstrual…
For a movement so often framed by loss—and confronting a particularly difficult moment—conservation is relearning how to talk about itself, linking conservation discursively to health, human rights, and local resilience.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Countries and communities around the world are increasingly facing existential threats from climate change. The United States has sustained 403 climate events since 1980 that have each exceeded $1 billion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Anew study from a team of researchers that includes faculty from the University of California San Diego and Princeton University shows how climate policies involving a mix of subsidies for clean energy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food Tank is highlighting 20 children’s books about food, agriculture, and the environment that will encourage young readers to reflect on what they eat and the planet. These recipe books,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in planetary health, meaning a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet, can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People can’t protect their land if they can’t provide for their kids. Mulago’s mission is to meet the basic needs of the poorest people, and one of the most basic needs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thousand Oaks, California, is surrounded by a lush ring of green that includes its namesake oaks. “It is incredibly beautiful,” Mayor David Newman said. It’s also one of the city’s…
Artificial intelligence is the transformative technology of our time. As argued in the Brookings Press book, “Turning Point: Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence,” it is powering applications in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Back in April, scientists read the tea leaves — or, more accurately, heaps of data —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Panamanian Indigenous Ngäbe Buglé Peoples and fisherfolk have practiced ancestral fishing in the provinces of Veraguas, Bocas del Toro, and Chiriquí for more than a hundred years. In February…