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NOTE: We are saddened to announce that due to the LA wildfires and its impact on our partners at NRDC, this event is being rescheduled. Our thoughts are with our colleagues and everyone affected. Stay ...

BLINKY BILL IS is his name, this marsupial turned environmental activist in bright red overalls patched at the knee: an ...

WITH THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY population declining by 90 percent in recent decades, efforts are underway to protect their ...

I walk into this new year with an abundance of gratitude and pride for the year that we have had and excitement for the year ...

This story won the 2025 Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest from Grist. Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that invite us to imagine the future we want — futures in ...

IN THE NEW YEAR, I came to where it was truly winter, on a train that passed the sunset and went on for a while longer, until out of the dark there was my station, a red shed by the snowy tracks and ...

THE FRAGRANCE of the forest is unlike any I have ever known. The smell of ripening and rotting apples and pears fills my nostrils. At my feet, russet reds, blushing pinks, vibrant roses, and creamy ...

THE FIRST THINGS I SEE are the tails of the planes. They jut like hundreds of dorsal fins rising from prehistoric fish that have been lined up by a butcher on a massive table of thin brown grass. It ...

AS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CONTINUES sleepwalking into a future of energy scarcity, climate change, and geopolitical turmoil, we have also continued dreaming. Our collective dream is one of those ...

THE SCALE AND SUBTLETY of our country’s dependency on oil and natural gas cannot be overstated. Nowhere is this truer than in our medical system. Petrochemicals are used to manufacture analgesics, ...

(This essay was a finalist for a 2010 National Magazine Award in the Essay category.) OUT ON THE BIG DRY we had to kill to live: Come October, we’d herd a yearling lamb into the west pen, throw it ...