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Soil: Keeping Nutrients in Food and Carbon in the Ground
Soil stores nutrients, carbon and micro-organisms.
Fiery Accidents and Toxic Pollution: Louisiana’s Environmental Woes Offer a Warning to Trump
Louisiana's accident-prone, polluting oil industry threatens to get worse under a Trump presidency.
How Northwest Tribes Joined Forces to Beat Fossil Fuel Initiatives
Their victories have been inspiring to members of the Standing Rock Sioux in the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline.
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As North Pole Melts in November, Wildfires Rage Across US Well Into Winter
Add 36 degrees Fahrenheit to the current temperature wherever you are for a sense of the crisis at the North Pole.
Alarm Over “Witch Hunt” After Trump Demands List of Civil Servants Who Worked on Climate Policy Under Obama
Internal document show Trump's transition team instructed the Department of Energy to hand over names.
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President Obama “Actively” Pondering End of Dormant Muslim Surveillance Scheme, Ahead of Trump
The White House is reportedly thinking about scrapping a controversial immigration surveillance program.
They Lost Their Jungles to Plantations, but These Indigenous Women Grew Them Back
A large Indigenous tribal group of India has relied for generations on a rich and diverse variety of native millets and foraged jungle foods.
Amid Dakota Access Protests, Tribes Continue to Pursue Clean Energy
Seven Sioux tribes in the Dakotas are developing what would be an enormous collection of wind farms on six reservations.
Critics Call $3 Billion Sabal Trail Pipeline Florida’s Dakota Access Pipeline
Another pipeline project at the other end of the US is quietly being installed as fast as possible.
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Teacher Shortages Are Looming, but It Doesn’t Need to Be This Way
Teaching was deliberately feminized over a century ago so that public school teachers could be paid less.