The US Electricity Transmission System Is in Gridlock How a national macrogrid could accelerate the movement to electrify everything By Peter Fairley September 18, 2023 In this story: clean energy, technology
The Carbon Footprint of Air Travel and How to Live a More Grounded Life Is a future without air travel possible? By Dayton Martindale June 15, 2023 In this story: travel, climate change, lifestyle
Future Forests of America Across the American West, forests are failing to regenerate after high-intensity wildfires, but that doesn't have to mean they're gone for good By Krista Langlois June 14, 2023 In this story: forests, wildfire
In Corpus Christi, Texas, Environmentalists Are Fighting a Slate of Proposed Desalination Plants The city says it needs extra water. But it's for fossil fuel and plastic corporations—not people By Jeremy Miller June 13, 2023 In this story: water, drought, climate change
What's to Be Done About the Wild Horse Herds of the American West? They're tearing up rangeland and riparian areas—and also our ideas about wildness By Heather Hansman June 12, 2023 In this story: animals, animal rights, public lands, climate change
Drops of Hope Along the Colorado River After 174 years, the Navajo Nation is still trying to regain access By Morgan Sjogren May 30, 2023 In this story: indigenous communities, rivers, water
What Earthrise Can Tell Us About Earth Day Earth Day should be a time for thinking about time By Jenny Odell April 17, 2023 In this story: earth day, climate change
From the Pond to the Streets, Revisited This Earth Day, it's time to pick up a shovel and get to work By Robin Wall Kimmerer April 17, 2023 In this story: earth day, climate change
Let's Return Earth Day to Its Revolutionary Past Youth activist Jamie Margolin hated Earth Day, until she learned more about it By Jamie Margolin April 17, 2023 In this story: earth day, climate change
An Earth Day for Life on Earth Earth Day should be a festival about letting other living things be, just because they are alive By Jedediah Britton-Purdy April 19, 2023 In this story: earth day, climate change