Editorials

We’re just getting warmed up.

The Trump presidency may finally be over, but the damage it did will persist and echo — even as President Biden takes rapid action to repair some of his predecessor’s environmental damage.

Pandemics and other disasters showed us what we have to lose — and how hard people are working to save the planet.

Our contributors offered expert ideas and perspective about pandemics, climate change, the Trump administration and more.

We survived the pandemic, the election and worsening climate change — but not without a few scars. Now’s the time to stay safe and build resilience.

This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.

With about two months until the 2020 election, our time to reflect on the environment grows short.

We’ve collected our best articles and essays about the links between racism, pollution, climate change and more.

The administration has brazenly axed another long list of environmental protections — when it should have been healing a nation wounded by the pandemic and racist violence.

The ongoing crisis of racially motivated police violence — and the government’s violent response to demonstrations against those actions — reminds us that change requires justice.