Inside the Fight to Shut Down Baltimore's Pollution-Spewing Trash Incinerator
"If you drive here at certain times of night, it smells like death."
The Amazon's Lesser-Known Cousin Has Lost a Fifth of its Area to Wildfire This Year
South of the Amazon, stretching into Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal has seen months of unprecedented fires.
How China’s Addiction to Coal Is Ravaging Zimbabwe’s Environment
When wildlife monitors came across a group of Chinese men drilling in Hwange National Park, they assumed they'd wandered into the park by accident.
The End of Colombia's Civil War Had an Unintended Effect: Deforestation
The exit of the former FARC guerrilla group marked the loss of an arbiter, and has allowed deforestation to surge.
The Pandemic Is Sanitizing the Image of Private Travel
Some consumers are prioritizing virus safety over their carbon footprint.
Expect Plagues of Locusts as Climate Change Gets Worse, Say Scientists
A swarm of 40 million locusts eats the same amount of food in one day as about 35,000 humans, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people.
How to Figure Out Which Candidates Actually Care About the Environment
Here's a set of tools to help you understand the issues and vote in support of climate reform.
12 Environmental Justice Organizations to Donate Time and Money To
As the most vulnerable of us are left to flounder in the wake of the climate crisis, advocacy groups can help fill the gap that politicians and companies have created.
Waste-to-Energy Plants Keep Trash From Mounting. So Why Are Environmentalists Against Them?
Burning trash and turning it into energy keeps countries like Sweden and Japan clean. But environmentalists say this comes at a cost.
A Hedge Fund With Ties to Trump Is Polluting One of Brooklyn's Poorest Communities
Sunset Park residents breathe some of the worst air in New York, made worse in the summer when the city turns on a nearby natural gas plant owned by a hedge fund to help power all the air conditioners.
Big Meat Is Selling Veggie Burgers—But It's Still Destroying the Environment
As the world's largest meat producers launch plant-based products to compete with vegan start-ups, beware of those greenwashing for profit.
This Heat Map Reveals Which Cities in Asia-Pacific Are Effectively Managing Waste
While “eco-friendly” alternatives like corn-based plastic cups and biodegradable plastic bags are now popular, the reality is that most countries don’t actually have the infrastructure to effectively process them.