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Environment & Health
Crowdfunding Is a Symptom of the US’s Broken Health Care System
The idea that individuals should make decisions about who does and doesn't deserve care has been normalized.
Climate Change Should Make the Republican Party Impossible
In every breath of air we take, we inhale, unseen, our climate debt, and exhale a future of disaster.
Killing Plants Is the Fastest Way to End the World
A recent study underscores how human-caused warming could annihilate life through co-extinction of species.
Climate Change Denial Is Raking the Ashes of Paradise
There will be more and larger fires to come, and the price to be paid will continue to rise.
Living Through California’s Wildfire Nightmare
The contrast between the Camp Fire and the Woolsey Fire shows how inequality plays out in not-so-natural disasters.
Scientists Warned This Weed Killer Would Destroy Crops. EPA Approved It Anyway.
Monsanto orchestrated the massive deployment of dicamba on tens of millions of acres of crops.
Fracking Is Expanding Drastically in the Southwest
Advocates say the fastest way to slow global warming is to stop all fracking now.
HUD Inspections Pass Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold
The system for inspecting federally subsidized properties is failing low-income communities.
How to Help California Wildfire Survivors
Whether you’re a local or live across the country, there are a number of ways to help.
Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
To overcome climate change, we require system change.