Honesty and transparency is the best way to preserve the integrity of science—and it’s future.
Island Press Field Notes
An interview with Miya Yoshitani, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
The environment is facing tough times in a Trump presidency. Within an hour of his inaguration, all mentions of climate...
Low-income communities and communities of color are likely to be hit first and worst by environmental rollbacks under the Trump administration — but they will also be at the forefront of the fight for climate justice.
Cities and states can step up their efforts to tackle global warming—with or without federal leadership.
Trying to predict how different US cities will be affected by climate change is something like trying to predict the movement of a single molecule in a sea of Brownian motion. Not...
What will happen when thousands of people overwhelm communities? Climate change is mostly a “slow onset” phenomenon. It does, however, generate fast-onset disasters/catastrophes as well. Multiple years of drought slowly debilitate the ecosystem,...
In January, Judy Donnelly noticed that maple syrup collection was starting much earlier than usual near her Connecticut home. "I've noticed tubing being strung to...
Two weeks ago, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted to ban the handling and storage of coal in the city, quashing a proposal to build what could have been the largest coal export facility in California.
As Donald Trump likes to say, “China is beating us on everything.” While that’s a debatable proposition, there is one area where China is far ahead of the United States, and that’s in resilient transportation systems.