Editorials

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.

Even as thousands of people get sick and die, the Trump administration continues to strip away our environmental protections. And that’s just the start.

Encouraged by the federal government, lots of people are trying to get outside. But it’s a risky decision for rural communities.

From the extinction crisis to environmental justice, these articles showcase what we have to lose and how people are working to make a brighter future.

Expert contributors took us to the Arctic, the borderlands and everywhere in between.

Knowing what we’re going through weighs heavily on us, but there are ways to express and alleviate that pain.

Airplane emissions are a big deal, but do they outweigh the chance to do a better job covering climate change and extinction? And is the anxiety over flying always productive?

Around the world this week, people will stop what they’re doing and stand up to call for great action against climate change.