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Climate Crisis
It’s Possible to Face Climate Horrors and Still Find Hope
David Wallace-Wells, who catalyzed the climate emergency movement, examines likely outcomes of the crisis in a new book.
The Shutdown as Shock Doctrine
The right wing could use the shutdown as a pretext to accelerate cuts to public services it deems “inessential.”
A Third of the Himalaya Ice Cap Will Melt by 2100
Truthout's Dahr Jamail discusses climate change and his newest book.
The World Is on the Brink of Widespread Water Wars
In some places conflict is practically guaranteed, according to one study.
Louisiana and Isle de Jean Charles Tribe Try to Find Common Ground
Talks have restarted over a $48 million climate change resettlement project.
Michael Bloomberg Versus the Green New Deal
Bloomberg is an unapologetic advocate of fracking and natural gas who has huge investments in fossil fuels.
In Haiti, Climate Aid Comes With Strings Attached
Perhaps no people know better than Haitians just how dangerous, destructive and destabilizing climate change can be.
A Green New Deal Is the First Step Toward an Eco-Revolution
We need an ecological revolution to avoid catastrophic planetary change, says sociologist John Bellamy Foster.
Imagine Being Homeless During the Polar Vortex
While the president chased after his wall, the real national emergency was people dying in extreme weather.
The State of the Resistance
People are mobilized, and intersecting resistance has come to define grassroots activism in the era of Trump.