This Is How the Age of Plastics Began
Milos Bicanski/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the closing months of World War II, Americans talked nonstop about how and when the war would end, and about how life was about to change. Germany…
A Photographer Reveals How a Shrinking African Landscape Leaves Little Room for Animals to Survive
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s new book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson), he explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one another’s way. “There is a very finite amount of space,” Brandt tells Mother Jones. “There isn’t room for both humans and…
A Photographer Placed African Animals Against an Industrial Landscape—And the Result is Mesmerizing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Nick Brandt’s third book, This Empty World (Thames & Hudson) photographs animals as others might photograph people—shooting close, revealing portraits instead of more traditional wildlife images. His newest work in East Africa explores the relationship between animals and humans that increasingly find themselves in one…
Environmentalists Didn’t Expect This Would Happen When They Busted Up Dams
Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This post was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dam busting is a grand tradition of American environmentalism. In 1966, when the Sierra Club and allies got Congress to prohibit new dams in the Grand Canyon it…
The 2020 Race Has Its First Climate Candidate
AP Photo/Mary Schwalm Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Washington Governor Jay Inslee joined the Democratic primary frenzy on Friday, launching a campaign with climate change as its central focus, an issue that conventional political wisdom, pointing to the polling, dismisses as a lower priority for voters than healthcare and stagnating…
What Do You Want to Know About the Green New Deal?
Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since then representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined a demonstration pushing for a Green New Deal last year, politicians, pundits, and activists have debated the proposal’s ambitious goals for addressing climate change. In early February, Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a resolution…