2015 September/October

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Divestment Goes Global

The student movement to defund the fossil fuel industry graduates and goes to work.

By Rosie Spinks

August 3, 2015

Tiger Liquidators

Lumber Liquidators was turning virgin trees from the world’s last Amur tiger habitat into floorboards, until a team of undercover environmentalists penetrated its shady supply chain.

By Jake Abrahamson

August 7, 2015

How Student Activists Are Battling Plastic

At colleges in Senegal, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand, students fight to phase out the nonbiodegradable stuff

By Natalya Savka

August 3, 2015

The Olive and the Power Plant

Turkey's rush to build coal plants comes at the expense of its most beloved culinary ingredient

By Jennifer Hattam

August 10, 2015