Our continuing newcomer’s guide to protesting looks at the foundational movements that shape our current and future efforts.

Our continuing newcomer’s guide to protesting looks at the foundational movements that shape our current and future efforts.

Our continuing newcomer’s guide to protesting looks at the foundational movements that shape our current and future efforts.

TOP STORIES

People sort through garbage as more is dumped onto a landfill

The Dominican Republic aims to modernize its waste-management system. But what will happen to the thousands of people — many of them undocumented — who rely on garbage to survive?

rain/tears over the sun

Climate activism is most effective when it taps into the pain of grieving instead of repeating statistics that overwhelm people into numbness.

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HEADLINES

El Rincon stream frog

Conservationists in Argentina’s Patagonia region have helped save the country’s most threatened amphibian, the El Rincon stream frog.

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.

Seven proposals at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference of the parties would benefit up to 70 species of sharks…if they pass.

Aerial view of river with tailings piles

Science has helped improve management and restoration, but advocates say there still isn’t enough water to go around.

Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.

How to participate in causes you believe in — in a manner that will be noticed, respected, and heard.

In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.”

Aggressive habitat fragmentation will follow the Trump administration’s and Senator Mike Lee’s frenzied and persistent attempts to sell millions of acres of public land.

A roughly maintained lawn with wildflowers

It’s time to rethink the American lawn: a landscaping default that sucks up money, water, chemicals, and time.

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