Environment

As floods, fires, and tornadoes surge, and daily as well as weekly publications collapse, local journalism maintains an all-too-slender lifeline in devastated rural communities like mine.

We are smart, linguistic, ultrasocial, tool-making primates who have recently stumbled upon an energy bonanza. We’ve accomplished wonders. But we have also become our own worst enemy. Collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms with environmental and social limits.

The Internet of Animals relies on the latest products of high-tech manufacturing, and it is vulnerable to the turbulence of human power struggles. But at its heart the project is the life’s work of dedicated scientists simply doing their best to learn from animals.

Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.

The solidarity economy (SE) is a global movement to build a world that centers people and the planet rather than maximizing private profit and endless growth.

Wind and solar are growing faster than any other sources of electricity in history, according to new analysis from thinktank Ember.