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Trump is fighting migrants while fueling the crises that force people to flee

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion — of planet Earth itself. They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone.


July 20, 2026

Creating resilient futures: Navigating ecological and civilizational contraction

A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.


July 20, 2026

How to Think About the Future – Part 5: How to build resilience from within

Nate scales his exploration of civilizational futures down to the future of a single human life and analyzes how the same patterns that shape economies, power, geopolitics, and Earth systems turn inward.


July 20, 2026

Repeated storms are turning disaster recovery into a way of life, and leaving communities facing disaster fatigue

As storms intensify in our warming world, recovery no longer feels permanent in places at risk of disasters. Instead, it’s too often a temporary reprieve before the next disaster hits. Recognizing community disaster fatigue is an important step toward building resilient recovery systems.


July 17, 2026

Introducing PLAN, the tool that finds every public lands fight open for comment right now

The Public Lands Action Network is a free tool that finds every public lands decision open for comment and helps you write the one comment the law makes them answer.


July 17, 2026

On autumn asters, bumblebees find warmth at season’s end

Sowing flowers in spring may have a surprising effect on the inner lives of bees.


July 17, 2026

‘Industrial memories’: What the history of the Anthropocene can tell us about where we’re headed

Industrial landscapes are living reminders of how centuries of fossil-fuel development reshaped Earth’s systems. As the Anthropocene unfolds, that legacy continues to shape our future. Historian Sabine Höhler argues that bridging the divide between human and Earth history is essential to understanding where we are and at what cost.


July 16, 2026

Stop press, same news: No energy transition, again

Has the much‑discussed energy transition actually begun? So far, the answer is no. With only brief dips in crisis years, global fossil fuel use has risen every year since 1983. The newly released 2025 data confirm: humanity burned more of every major energy source in 2025 than ever before.


July 16, 2026

Limestone whitewash: An old material with practical benefits

Modern paints contain toxic chemicals that linger in our homes and bodies, while traditional lime-based whitewash offers a low-energy, low-tox alternative that brightens buildings, protects surfaces and can even ‘sweeten’ acidic soils to boost fertility.


July 16, 2026

Crazy Town Episode 129

Crazy Town: Episode 129. Finding Crazy Town Part 1: The Strait of Everything

What happens when the global economy depends on fish traveling 10,000 miles, oil flowing through a single strait, and enough cheap fossil fuel energy to build civilizations that previous generations couldn’t even imagine?


July 15, 2026

Shutting down federal bee labs threatens bees, beekeepers and the US food system

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home to the nation’s premier bee research and disease diagnosis hub. The closure comes at a critical moment for bees.


July 15, 2026

How propaganda and false information are undermining humanitarian work

From vaccine hesitancy to conflict-zone rumors, false information is making it harder for humanitarian organizations to build trust, protect civilians, and save lives.


July 15, 2026

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