Climate & Environment

October 7, 2024
Sabrina Fernandes

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.

September 4, 2024
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.

August 29, 2024
Grace Livingstone

Uruguay was the first country in the world to enshrine water as a human right. Today an extractivist model threatens water sustainability and sovereignty.

August 19, 2024
Florencia Pagola, Carolina Bas Lemos, Madeleine Wattenbarger, Eliana Gilet

From Mexico City to Montevideo, women are leading the fight to protect their communities’ water from extractive projects. 

August 15, 2024
Emma Banks

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.

May 31, 2024
Jack Phillips

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.

May 8, 2024
Michael Fox

Climate change and poor disaster preparedness have exacerbated the impacts of historic floods that have left parts of southern Brazil underwater.

April 29, 2024
Patricia Rodríguez

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.

February 22, 2024
Benjamin Swift with Laura Barriga Dávalos

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.

February 13, 2024
Patricia Rodríguez

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.

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