Solutions

Erin Brockovich, E.O. Wilson, Jane Fonda and others deliver important new books addressing the fights against climate change, the extinction crisis and toxic pollution.

A plan to import hydropower from Canada to Massachusetts begs the question of whether big hydro along with its reservoirs and dams, is green enough to be worth the cost.

Despite divestment victories, big banks and asset managers continue driving climate change through their lending practices.

The EPA allowed polluters to stop monitoring or even preventing their emissions, and many states followed suit. Here’s what happened — and how to fix it.

In The Reindeer Chronicles, Judith D. Schwartz shows how badly damaged landscapes are being restored across the world — and why more of that work is deeply needed.

Videos of people getting too close to, and touching, the rare apes motivates other people to want to do the same — and that could spread diseases like COVID-19 to a critically endangered species.

From global warming’s threats to its potential solutions, these new books examine how we got here and where we’re going.

Climate change is already leaving Southeast cities swamped. Experts from the Southern Environmental Law Center explain how communities are planning for a wetter future.

Kamikatsu famously declared its goal was to go waste-free by 2020, but it didn’t quite get there. Their experience shows we can’t move further without systemic changes.

A river-restoration advocate looks back at her family’s forgotten history to gain new insight into the history — and future — of our country’s rivers.