Truthout
Climate Front Lines
Mike Ludwig explores our rapidly changing planet with experts and activists from frontline communities across the world.
![Climate Front Lines with Mike Ludwig](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/11/climate-front-lines-1200x675.jpg)
Series Introduction
Climate change is happening now. Truthout reporter Mike Ludwig explores our rapidly changing planet with experts and activists from frontline communities across the world.
![A wheat warehouse is seen in ruins from ongoing Russian attacks in Kopyliv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, on May 28, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/2022_0610-ukraine-wheat-400x300.jpg)
Climate Change Was Already Causing Hunger to Spike. Then Russia Invaded Ukraine.
A climate expert with the World Food Program says hunger is rising faster than at any other time in the 21st century.
![Smoke and flames rise from an illegally lit fire in an Amazon rainforest reserve, south of Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil, on August 15, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0329-amazon-forest-fire-400x300.jpg)
Destruction of Amazon Rainforest Accelerates as Elections Loom in Brazil
Deforestation of the Amazon, a major carbon sink, is a threat to Indigenous people and life everywhere.
![A flare burns off gas into the atmosphere at a Permian Basin oil field in Eddy County, New Mexico on April 23, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1118-permian-basin-extraction-400x300.jpg)
Thermal Videos Reveal Heavy Pollution From the Texas Oil Boom
Environmentalists say the fracking boom in the Permian Basin is a ticking “climate bomb.”
![A resident of Laplace, Louisiana, wades through floodwaters after Hurricane Ida made landfall August 29, 2021, as a category 4 storm southwest of New Orleans. Water has always shaped life in Louisiana, where people are already preparing for intensifying storms and demanding the next generation of climate resilient green infrastructure.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1337300942-400x300.jpg)
After Hurricane Ida, Louisianians Offer Bold Visions for Climate Resilience
Louisiana is already preparing for rising seas and intensifying storms, offering lessons for the rest of us.
![Paola Sanchez speaks during a rally with The Sunrise Movement to take action for an economic recovery and infrastructure package prioritizing climate, care, jobs, and justice, calling on Congress to pass the THRIVE Act on April 7, 2021, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/2021_0528-sunrise-movement-400x300.jpg)
Forget the GOP Plan. Climate Activists Want $10 Trillion for Infrastructure.
The Sunrise Movement wants to put millions of young people to work combating the climate crisis.
![The lawyer of Ecuadorean people affected by Texaco-Chevron -- who have long sought compensation for pollution between the 1970s and early 1990s -- Steven Donziger, gestures during a press conference on March 19, 2014, in Quito.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0416-rights-of-nature-400x300.jpg)
We Are Living in a Climate Emergency. Why Doesn’t Nature Have Legal Rights?
A new documentary covers the Indigenous-led Rights of Nature movement on the front lines of the climate emergency.
![The Yellow Finch tree sit near Elliston, Virginia.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/04/2021_0402-climate-f-400x300.jpg)
Appalachian Pipeline Blockade Ends With Arrests After 932 Days
The multiyear direct action ended last week after two protesters were arrested and jailed without bail.
![Homeless camps sit along the I-35 frontage road in Austin, Texas, on February 17, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0223-texas-tents-400x300.jpg)
Mutual Aid Means Survival in Texas as Winter Storm Collides With Housing Crisis
A tenants' union in Dallas was fighting evictions to keep people in their homes. Then the deadly winter storm hit.
![People march past Trump International Hotel during the Native Nations Rise protest on March 10, 2017, in Washington, D.C.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/01/2021_0126-pipeline-protest-400x300.jpg)
Biden’s First Climate Actions Are a Result of Years of Indigenous Activism
Indigenous activists emerged as leaders of a climate movement that put increasing pressure on Joe Biden.
![People protest against the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline project outside the Governor's Mansion on November 14, 2020, in St Paul, Minnesota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2020_1218-honor-the-treaties-400x300.jpg)
To Protect Great Lakes, Michigan Tribes Oppose Enbridge Line 5 Pipelines
Whitney Gravelle, an attorney for the Bay Mills Indian Community, discusses the fight against Enbridge's Line 5.