Op-Eds

New international agreements are a step in the right direction, but the real work to ensure robust and equitable protections is just beginning. 

What if governments finally decided to act on climate change and environmental degradation?

Art raises awareness, but environmental organizations too often fail to engage with artists or their own creativity.

Thousands of people stood up for these at-risk species, proof that we must combine science with an ethic of restraint enforced by public outcry.

Subsidized water cultivated the West, but this required becoming increasingly profligate with the region’s scarcest resource.

Disadvantaged communities have suffered disproportionately from underinvestment in clean and affordable water. That could change with legislation passed last year.

Both approval and ranked choice voting put fire under the feet of elected officials to do the right thing for the environment — or risk being voted out.

But there are steps we can take to bring nature to our communities and empower them to protect it.

The Biden administration’s new “polluter pays” tax offers a welcome boost for Superfund cleanup efforts, but it leaves out one key industry.

Fishing subsidies threaten ocean health and food security. The World Trade Organization has a plan to address that, but implementation must come quickly.