Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
All land was Indigenous once. Now, over half of the world’s ‘green’ metal projects are on Indigenous territories, from lithium-driven ecosystem collapse in the Andes to more than 100 proposed lithium mines across the US.
Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.
As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.
As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.
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.
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?
Despite recent shifts in federal energy policies, a Carbon Brief analysis shows that the US transition to renewable energy is continuing.
Vulnerable communities face growing threats: the climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions and authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility. So what can we do? We build. We shift away from reform and instead direct our energy toward creating entirely new systems.
Across discussions on policy, technology, supply chains, and community partnerships at a food waste summit earlier this year, a different pattern emerged: food waste rarely appeared as an isolated issue. Instead, it surfaced as a signal of deeper system failures.
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future. They take these risks without our consent and without our interests in mind. The result could be humanity being replaced as Earth’s most intelligent species by a silicon-based successor.
Poet and author Sophie Strand joins Human Nature Odyssey for a wide-ranging conversation about stories, illness, ecology, and transformation. Drawing from her own experience living with chronic illness, Sophie explores how the stories we inherit shape our relationship to the living world.
War has become a fever that world leaders cannot seem to break. As militarism spreads, its costs extend far beyond the battlefield, accelerating climate change while consuming the resources needed to confront it.
