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The Biden Administration Protects Millions of Acres of Arctic Alaska

April 19, 2024 Latest NewsAlaskaJenny Shalant

The new Special Areas Rule in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could boost biodiversity and empower Indigenous Peoples to defend the lands they’ve relied on for generations.

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“Forever Chemicals” Called PFAS Show Up in Your Food, Clothes, and Home

April 10, 2024 ExplainerUnited StatesMolly M. Ginty, Courtney Lindwall

These toxic chemicals are so common in consumer products and manufacturing that they’re everywhere—including inside our bodies.

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In Planning for Climate Change, Native Americans Draw on the Past

March 11, 2024 ExplainerUnited States, CanadaTim Vanderpool

Across North America, Indigenous tribes and nations are consulting their traditional ecological knowledge to help prepare for a warming world.

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A Rescued Tiger Cub? Mating Mollusks? A Thieving Fox? One of These Images Could Bring Home the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award.

September 28, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

From playful animal behavior to pollution and poaching, these artists capture the state of nature in 2017.

Mass Transit: The Crucial Ingredient in the Recipe for a Boomtown

September 22, 2017 PerspectivesCaliforniaJeff Turrentine

How a single light-rail stop transformed a sleepy L.A. suburb into a vibrant, buzzing business hub.

If Now’s Not the Time to Talk About Climate Change, When Is?

September 15, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

A nation serious about mitigating natural disasters like the ones we’ve just seen can’t afford to let this moment slip away.

Pigeons Experimenting with Cosplay—and Other Signs the End Is Near

September 14, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Artist Laurel Roth Hope stitches costumes to disguise ubiquitous birds as extinct species.

Turning to the Landfill to Make Fine Art

August 30, 2017 PerspectivesInternationalClara Chaisson

Mbongeni Buthelezi “paints” with plastic—and the results are stunning.

Americans Red and Blue Unite Against Trump's Plan to Drill the Atlantic

August 28, 2017 PerspectivesEast, United StatesJeff Turrentine

Not even the Republican governors who supported him are willing to get behind it.

Witness the Larsen C Ice Shelf’s Breakup—in Downtown Chicago?

August 16, 2017 PerspectivesChicagoClara Chaisson

A public art installation by Luftwerk puts Antarctica’s climate change woes at the center of urban life.

Meet the Fish That Builds Works of Love on the Seafloor

August 4, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Who knew the unassuming male pufferfish is one of nature’s greatest artists?

The Border Wall Is Underway . . . Right in the Middle of a Wildlife Refuge

July 28, 2017 PerspectivesWest, United StatesJeff Turrentine

Trump’s already offensive wall will also endanger an already endangered species.

Meet the Aboriginal Community Turning Abandoned Fishing Gear into Art

July 21, 2017 PerspectivesInternationalClara Chaisson

On Australia’s Cape York Peninsula, artists weave deadly “ghost nets” into totems.

With a Few Creative Touches, Pollution Masks Become Symbols of Hope

July 12, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Maskbook invites people around the world to express their environmental anxieties.

New Yorkers, Meet the Neighbors You Never Knew You Had

June 8, 2017 PerspectivesNew York CityClara Chaisson

A public photography exhibit at Brooklyn Bridge Park introduces city dwellers to the amazing marine life of the New York Bight.

In These Paintings, the Earth Gets Tagged Out

May 11, 2017 PerspectivesLos Angeles, United StatesClara Chaisson

Josh Keyes’s images of graffitied wilderness reflect a profound sense of environmental anxiety.

An Artist Envisions Our National Parks in 2050

April 26, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesClara Chaisson

Hannah Rothstein’s grim tourism posters are a call to action, in a time when the president is pillaging our public lands.

Climate Deniers Seize the Day!

April 14, 2017 PerspectivesUnited StatesJeff Turrentine

With funding from the fossil-fuel industry, a denialist think tank is mailing its anti-science propaganda to 200,000 schoolteachers. Hmmm, what could be behind their newfound boldness?