As vaccines offer hope for a world after Covid, experts warn that in many ways, the fight is only beginning. Read the full story at The Cairo Review.
Living in a World in Which Nature Has Already Lost
Review of Second Nature, by Nathaniel Rich, for the New York Times Book Review. Read the review here.
Life in the US Has the Hallmarks of a “Low-Grade War Zone”
Countless red flags have sprung up in recent months indicating a creeping authoritarianism coming into full form. Vigilante forms of far right “justice” have become commonplace, as in the high-profile case of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the numerous cases of far right violence and intimidation directed at Black Lives Matter activists since nationwide protests erupted in the
Fracking Company Has Made It Rain Toxic Water Upon New Mexico Without Penalty
Is New Mexico’s state government aiding and abetting fracking companies’ damage to humans and the environment? Read the full story on Truthout.
Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
In this excerpt from the new anthology “A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Times,” journalist Dahr Jamail describes how Macy and her work helped him survive profound war trauma and climate grief. Read the article here in YES! Magazine.
New York Times reviews The End of Ice
The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth Read the review here.
A Future Filled With Pathogens
The combination of a worsening climate crisis and ongoing human encroachment on the wilds will bring more pandemics. Read the full story at The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
Tested
The Navajo Nation has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Indian Country. How will it cope? Read the story here, at Searchlight New Mexico.
Could COVID-19 Spell the End of the Fracking Industry as We Know It?
It has always been known that the oil and gas industry only survives by way of debt financing. Fracking is capital intensive, and very few companies involved ever actually even turn a profit in excess of the cost of capital. Instead, they have always operated by dependency on cheap money from Wall Street banks to
2019: A Year in the Life of Our Escalating Climate Crisis
The climate news was not good this year—all the more reason to fight with renewed vigor in the next. Read the full story at The Nation here.