Environmental Justice

Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.

The Global South and communities of color in Global North countries disproportionately face harms from climate change, writes Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate in her new book, A Bigger Picture.

The slow-moving coup threatens not just democracy but meaningful action on climate, extinction and environmental justice.

Whether you’re into literary fiction, thrillers, sci-fi or comics, these new novels help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.

Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution.

The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.

Those fighting to protect the planet face intense police repression that's funded by private corporations.

European “explorers” left their mark not only on the environment, but also in knowledge systems.

A project in Los Angeles could help communities that lack tree canopy and provide a much-needed tool to protect residents from dangerous temperatures.

Harmful fisheries subsidies push species to extinction, fuel food insecurity, and worsen the climate crisis.