U.S. environmentalists take note: El Salvador's activists proved that a national consensus on environmentalism can be forged one town at a time.
Issues / Environment
The Obama administration could have done more to stop climate change. The Trump administration couldn't have done less.
While China, Europe, and several U.S. states are reaping the rewards of transitioning to renewables, the Trump administration appears dead-set on propping up a dying dirty industry.
Europeans want to upend politics as usual and the far right is still rising. If the left doesn’t come up with an unusual politics of its own, it will be upended as well.
Trump wants to "renegotiate" trade deals like NAFTA. But there's no evidence he wants to fix their corrosive impact on labor protections or environmental standards.
From Hawaii to Okinawa, Pacific islands seem relegated to serve as neverland vacation getaways — as well as outposts for our military empire.
After a long struggle, El Salvador just proved that with enough civil society support, even a very poor country can stand up to powerful global mining firms.
Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide?
Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn't make anyone feel safer.
Despite Trump's tough talk, his crude and narrow vision of foreign policy has created huge opportunities for China and Russia.