As blazes set new records, it is important to denormalize the framing of forest destruction as a simple natural cycle, detached from criminal activity, intentional deforestation, economic interests, and climate change.
Peter Klepeis, Keith Klepeis, Gabriela Mora-Klepeis, Jorge López Maldonado
Green hydrogen in southern Chile elicits glowing rhetoric from energy advocates. But unless benefits are shared with locals, the project could replicate harmful inequalities.
Uruguay was the first country in the world to enshrine water as a human right. Today an extractivist model threatens water sustainability and sovereignty.
Cañaverales is the first to benefit from a new government program aimed at protecting campesino communities from industrial development, but corporate power remains a major obstacle to justice and dignity for its people.
Mexico’s new tourist train has been hailed as the Yucatán’s salvation, but experts and activists warn of the potentially devastating environmental and cultural consequences of the outgoing president’s flagship megaproject.
For one researcher and member of the Colombian environmental movement, confronting the climate crisis—and the false solutions proposed to address it—means transforming society as we know it.
As massive wildfires swept across Bolivia in late 2023, a classist, racist, and capitalist public outcry deflected from the primary drivers of drought and deforestation.
For a small farmer in Rio de Janeiro state, a private port catering to the fossil fuel industry has brought a decade-long struggle to remain on the land.
