Like many other modern American corporations, Google professes a deep commitment to protecting the environment and combating climate change from the very top: In a September 2020 blog post, CEO Sundar Pichai nodded to a “carbon-free future” and outlined a… Read More ›
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A Biologist Fought to Remove Grizzlies From the Endangered Species List — Until Montana Republicans Changed His Mind
When Chris Servheen speaks to skeptical audiences across the Northern Rockies, he holds one goal above all others. The famed bear biologist aims to fix his lessons in the mind of the hunter. He wants his words to return in… Read More ›
Subpoenaed Fossil Fuel Documents Reveal an Industry Stuck in the Past
The BP-Husky Toledo Refinery at sunset in Oregon, Ohio, on June 13, 2017. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s remarkable how little some industries’ strategies change over the decades. How little they need to change, given how effective they… Read More ›
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”
A boiler tower surrounded by mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, Calif., on Aug. 26, 2022. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images Conservation biology finds itself in a terrifying place today, witness to mass extinction, helpless… Read More ›
How Scientists From the “Global South” Are Sidelined at the IPCC
When Yamina Saheb started work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2019, she was stunned at the treatment meted out to researchers from the “global south.” Diversity, equity, and inclusion seemed laughably alien concepts at the organization, which is… Read More ›
The Hunger Striker vs. The Dictator
Many of the tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush… Read More ›
Holding the COP27 Summit in Egypt’s Police State Creates a Moral Crisis for the Climate Movement
No one knows what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd El Fattah, arguably Egypt’s highest profile political prisoner, wrote it while on a hunger strike in his Cairo prison cell last month…. Read More ›
In Reviewing Wolves’ Endangered Status, Martha Williams Confronts Her Montana Past
Martha Williams is at a crossroads. As director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act, Williams is arguably the most important official in Washington for saving wildlife amid the ongoing mass extinction… Read More ›
Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks to Expand Free Speech for Corporations and Limit It for Citizens
Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Katie Porter, D-Calif., probably didn’t plan for their committee hearings to run at the exact same time this week, but the hearings sure were talking to each other. In her Committee on Natural Resources hearing,… Read More ›
New Bill Would Protect Workers Who Walk Off the Job Because of Climate Disasters
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is introducing legislation that would provide employees with paid time off during severe weather events certain to be intensified by climate change, as well as protections for those who walk off the job to seek safety… Read More ›