A man sits on a rocky outcropping overlooking sun-tinged fog.

Our minds can flip the script on climate change. Here are ways to reframe our perceptions and make us more resilient and empowered.

A man sits on a rocky outcropping overlooking sun-tinged fog.

Our minds can flip the script on climate change. Here are ways to reframe our perceptions and make us more resilient and empowered.

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Bears Ears National Monument

The Trump team has launched a three-pronged attack on the environment. We need to understand it if we hope to stand up to it.

Beaver

Citizen scientists are helping restore the ecosystem engineers to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

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In a world that feels increasingly at odds, Kenya’s Baringo giraffes showcase how a common cause can unite communities.

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

Have you worked with or advocated for an imperiled, rare, or fascinating species? We want to share your stories and support efforts to protect these endangered plants and animals.

A proposed timber sale within the Yaak Valley threatens massive old-growth trees and habitat. Instead, could it become the nation’s first climate refuge?

EPA building and flag

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen,” write current and former EPA employees. “We need to hold this administration accountable.”

Politicians have mocked, belittled, and cut federally funded research for decades, but funding basic science has a long history of lifesaving discoveries.

Russia’s “shadow fleet” of aging oil tankers helps fund the ongoing war but puts the region at risk of more environmental disasters.

A toy truck and plastic debris scattered on mud along the Lake Uru Uru shore near Oruro, Bolivia, on April 8, 2021. In addition to a major drought in 2016 that dramatically decreased water levels, Lake Uru Uru has been devastated by plastic pollution and mining wasting.

The current administration continues to senselessly undermine efforts to reduce single-use plastics. But plastic never was and never will be disposable, and neither are the people it poisons.

A close-up of the Gulf of Mexico on an old globe

A veteran journalist writes: Let’s celebrate the Gulf of Mexico — and stand up against censorship, for the First Amendment, and with fired government workers and scientists.

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