“The Billionaires Won’t Save Us from the Climate Crisis" | Nice article by @jasondovemark.bsky.social for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

It's that time of year. Time to wonder: Why do we change the clocks? This story, originally published by @us.theconversation.com, centers an Indigenous approach to question why we "fight against our biological presets" to favor productivity when we "need winter to rest and summer to bloom."

My latest, via @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: On one point, Bill Gates and I agree. Gates writes “There is no CEO who sets the world’s climate priorities or strategies, which is exactly as it should be." Let’s take him at his word on that. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Last week, as a who's who of climate scientists warned that global society is “hurtling toward climate chaos,” @billgates.bsky.social released a memo saying the opposite. As @jasondovemark.bsky.social writes, the memo is “standard issue delay, only now dressed in the good vibes of philanthropy.”

As more people of all ages and abilities turn to the outdoors, there’s growing interest in building trails that are accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities. Massachusetts is one state leading the way. Story by @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

🗳️ It's election day on Tuesday! This may be an an off-off-cycle year, but there are still a handful of important races for the climate. @emilypont.bsky.social points out a handful for you to pay attention to tomorrow ⤵️:

Seven years after a super typhoon leveled Saipan’s largest middle school, it has yet to be rebuilt. That wait has taken a toll on the thousands of students who have attended the school since, and serves as a symbol of how cyclones can plague communities years after they pass through. #The89Percent

Experimental projects by the US Forest Service are testing the relocation of trees, moving seedlings from where they are growing to where climate data predicts they will grow. The "assisted migration" projects have sparked both curiosity and concern. #The89Percent www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

A century after it was first described, an international voyage has captured the first confirmed video of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. Watch the video and read more in @theconversation.com : theconversation.com/a-century-af...

A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies. #The89Percent @coveringclimatenow.org

For a fourth straight year, banks are making more money providing loans and underwriting bond sales for green-related projects than they’re earning from fossil fuel companies

#Melissa, expected to make landfall on Tuesday, is reportedly strongest #hurricane to hit #Jamaica since record keeping began in 1851. 😟

It is widely recognized that climate change is the biggest global health threat that we face today. But the question of how climate change affects our brains gets relatively little attention.

UCLA now manages more than 90 percent of its grounds without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. The university has also worked to remove turf and dramatically increase plantings of drought-tolerant native species, one of a number of US campuses committed to rewiliding their school grounds.

Colorado oil and gas companies used toxic chemicals prohibited under state law in operations involving dozens of wells on either side of the Rocky Mountains, a recent investigation found.

Decades of crude oil spills and gas flaring have transformed the Niger Delta into one of the most polluted places on Earth. Now, in the face of mounting lawsuits over spills and declining outputs, the international oil companies that plundered these lands are rushing to divest from the region.

Robert Dash’s striking food-focused photographs straddle the world of art and science, showcasing “the incredible structural beauty of micro nature while offering a broader commentary on the biggest planetary crises of our times — climate disruption and biodiversity loss.”

Tropical storms should not be hitting Alaska. We need to get off of oil, gas, and other fossil fuels now. And every community needs take its responsibility to cut fossil fuels and to protect people very, very seriously.

Eddie LeJuine has been fishing and shrimping along the Louisiana coast for decades. Recently, his income has plummeted due to LNG development, & his home insurance premium has tripled due to climate change. What makes it worse? Insurers are investing in fossil fuel projects even as they hike rates.

Before the Gold Rush, there were about 10,000 grizzlies in California, but the species was hunted and trapped to extinction by the 1920s. Now a team of researchers is investigating whether the grizzly could make a comeback in the Golden State.

My latest essay is about #wildlife rehab. I hope you’ll give it a read.

Sometimes progress moves fast. Just 15 years ago, as the editor of @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, I published a special issue all about the fight against "King Coal." Today, coal has been knocked from its throne. In a recent US govt mining auction, coal sold for only 1/10 of a penny per ton

An illegal gold rush has cleared 140,000 hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon and is accelerating as foreign, armed groups move into the region to profit from record gold prices, a new report finds.

"When it comes to the metaphoric influence of shapes, the circle reigns supreme." Don't miss our review of Triolo's new book, "The Way Around," about three meaningful circumambulations the author made, and how they helped him grapple with crises both environmental and personal.

"Today, in my dual roles as a soil conservationist and my father’s caregiver, I have begun to dream about an alternative to the monoculture economies that poison the land and our bodies... To believe in a future where it is still possible to cultivate resilient rural economies in the Great Plains."

Thank you @longreads.com for amplifying Ryley's Graham's feature on the plight of "bile bears." The practice might be banned in Vietnam, but, sadly, it continues in other parts of Asia.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

"[E]very time the doorbell rings [at a wildlife care center], it’s also an opportunity to get someone to understand that wildlife are our neighbors. That they need our help to keep them safe." @tkdano.bsky.social

We lost another beloved global icon and environmental world elder. RIP #JaneGoodall and thank you for all the work and inspiration.

For more than 40 years, Sharon Negri has been working to protect mountain lions. Amid today's dangerous anti-predator backlash, she's still at it. "As activists know," she writes, "the work is rarely ever finished.

In late 2023, the Indigenous Ogiek of Sasimwani were evicted from their home in Kenya’s Maasai Mau Forest to make way, they say, for the country's growing carbon market. They are still fighting to return.

"In all my time on the water..., I’ve interacted with many conservation-minded anglers out there like me. Yet our views are rarely represented in conversations about how meaningful policy and management can benefit all fishers in the long-term. Fish On was born in 2024 to do just that."

For decades, Asiatic black bears were kept captive on Vietnam's bile bear farms, subjected to painful and dangerous procedures to harvest their bile. Today, after years of tireless advocacy, the industry is nearing its end, and rescued bears are finding new life in the country's sanctuaries.

Happy 104th birthday to Betty Reid Soskin! Until she retired at 100, Soskin was for years America's oldest active National Park Service ranger. To celebrate, we're resharing our 2016 conversation with her about her "accidental" path to the NPS, why she's worried for her grandchildren, and more.

In recent years, the movement to decarbonize the buildings where we live, work, and otherwise spend our time has picked up speed. And alongside the push to decarbonize is a growing movement to ensure that it is done equitably.

In "We Are Eating the Earth," Michael Grunwald focuses on the overlooked fact that producing calories for eight billion mouths is the ultimate wicked problem of climate change. Don't miss @jasondovemark.bsky.social's review! @mikegrunwald.bsky.social

The Black Sea, of course, isn’t black. But late last year, some of its waters did turn black. Two Russian tankers, en route to deliver fuel to the Russian Navy for its invasion of Ukraine, wrecked near the Kerch Strait, spilling fuel into the sea. The damage lingers nine months on.

"In July 2024, in hopes of exposing the impact of the climate crisis on mental health, I began working on a photography project to document Americans’ experiences with eco-anxiety... It [soon became] clear that eco-anxiety was not what I was predominantly documenting."

This could be big: Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have been directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for the first time. The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable for its role in the climate crisis.

Greenpeace's Deepa Padmanabha on how the group is fighting a suit by oil company Energy Transfer accusing Greenpeace of coordinating the Standing Rock protests—the most significant Indigenous uprising in half a century—and what is at stake when it comes to free speech. @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social

Joe Rogan is spreading climate misinformation on one of the country’s most popular podcasts, scientists say—and he’s not the only one.

"The question today isn’t whether the climate negotiations are doomed. Rather, it is whether the fractious nations of the twenty-first-century world, besieged by fossil capitalism and tides of cheap nationalism, will be able to cooperatively face their deteriorating conditions of existence."

In January 2020, major players in Washington’s wood-products sector choreographed legislation that, with little more than the flourish of the legislative pen, wished away the timber industry’s significant carbon dioxide emissions. Our cover story digs into the quasi-academic group behind the law.

"Apathy is human. It can be a defense mechanism to feelings that overwhelm...It can stem from misinformation...It can be fed by our feelings of powerlessness...But, as the reports and features in this issue make clear, there are many ways to keep it at bay." — Autumn 2025 Letter from the Editor

Rescuers in boats raced to reach stranded families in Pakistan’s populous eastern Punjab province after three major rivers burst their banks because of heavy rain and the release of water from overflowing dams in neighboring India. The floods displaced nearly 250,000 people.

The global rush for hybrid and all-electric vehicles (EVs) has made its way to the world’s poorest continent — Africa. However, the story is different here.

A massive private zoo founded by the son of Asia's richest person is home to more than 150,000 animals. India's supreme court has just ordered an investigation into alleged illegal wildlife imports and financial misconduct there.

#Trump is really going after those windmills. The Revolution Wind is apparently 80 percent complete.

"As a field biologist and herpetologist few things are more exciting than seeing species in the wild that you’ve never seen before, especially things you weren’t expecting to find."

As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water.