Cheering the clear skies of the COVID-19 epoch is a little like celebrating the return of wildlife to Chernobyl’s exclusion zone.
The mishandling of COVID-19 has unfolded just as the response to global warming has -- only at a faster clip.
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden have big climate goals. Here’s how they can reach them.
The presidential candidate has staked out a political stance between incremental change and panic over our warming planet.
After a long slump in youth voting, enthusiasm has spiked: In 2018 the number of young voters doubled over the 2014 midterm election.
After a natural gas accident that captured national headlines, residents of a conservative L.A. district have become environmental activists.
Climate concerns that have helped drive coal to near-obsolescence have contributed to a recent slump in the Kentucky senator's popularity.
The media’s erasing of women of color from the climate activism narrative is dangerous for the movement, says one young activist.
Selling credits for forest protection hasn’t worked before. Why does the state's air board think it will now?
Co-published by the American Prospect Today fears about privacy and census confidentiality loom large among African-Americans.
Co-published by the American Prospect Nowhere is the risk of undercounting immigrant residents higher than in California, whose immigrant population is nearly twice the national average.
Co-published by The Guardian Love and energy aren’t always enough to provide what Allensworth, a historic African-American town, needs most: clean water, accessible to all.
There was one key difference between last week's picket lines of Marlton School teachers and students, and those of other LAUSD schools: Marlton's chanted “Strike, strike,...
Co-published by Newsweek So far, Gavin Newsom has only affirmed his support for a ban on hydrofracturing, although activists are hopeful he will be more aggressive...
On election night the incumbent, a former investment banker who sounded all the GOP notes, emerged with a slight edge. But in late vote tabulating, her...
The election of 2018 has fundamentally changed the comfortable district’s politics, engaging voters who either sat out previous elections or voted without thinking too hard.
Safe injection facilities represent the highest ideal of harm reduction services for people who inject drugs, yet in the United States remain almost prohibitively controversial.
The Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction is more than a syringe exchange. It’s a place where people who use drugs also find community, treatment for...
Co-published by Newsweek The practice of harm reduction seeks not to shame people who use drugs into giving them up, but simply to provide them with...
Co-published by Fast Company Much of the recent gathering in San Francisco involved corporate and government backslapping -- noble but too easily mocked.