Protect This Place: Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.
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Our imaginations can help create new climate possibilities
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
Be (grateful) here now: Deep Adaptation Gratitude Month
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”-Joanna Macy
Tribes and water protectors ward off new Black Hills gold rush
The moment the U.S. Forest Service posted its July notice of a draft decision to permit gold prospecting at Jenny Gulch here in the Black Hills, tribes, water protectors and treaty rights defenders turned out in droves to ward off the project and others like it.
July 2022: Warmest nights in U.S. history
As it melts records across the Northern Hemisphere, the scorching summer of 2022 has squeezed out the warmest month of nights in U.S. history.
The Animal Worlds That Lie Beyond Our Perception
What is special about humans that sets us apart from other animals? Less than some of us would like to believe.
West Virginia v. EPA: It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
After decades as a climate and clean energy activist, I can’t help but feel that we’ve been here before. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Meet the volunteer brigades and artists fighting forest fires and deforestation in Brazil
With the worsening of forest fires and the spike in deforestation as a result of attacks by Bolsonaro’s government, volunteer forest firefighter brigades started to form around the country.
How Outdoor Enthusiasts Can Help Scientific Research About Climate and Wildlife
The nonprofit Adventure Scientists unites skilled outdoors people with scientists to help drive critical conservation work.
The nitrogen fertilizer monkey trap
Nitrogen fertilizers are like so many other things our modern industrial civilization requires, absolutely necessary to maintain our current trajectory of continuous growth and increasingly threatening to a sustainable future.
Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core
A true climate justice agenda will need to be about demolishing the imperial arrangements enshrined in the global economy that are today leading to an ecological abyss.
How communities across the globe are responding to heatwaves
In the face of these stark realities, what can individual communities do to combat the ongoing climate crises? Turns out, quite a lot.
