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Did Montana Violate Its Residents’ Right To a Clean Environment?

A new lawsuit builds on 50 years of history in environmental activism.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via Made by History on June 12, 2023
Watercolor of a whale destroying a boat of whalers.

Captain Joy’s Last Voyage

What a whaling captain’s logbook can teach us about sperm whales and our oceans.
by Richard King, Kripa Bansal, Mia Hines, Carter Myers-Brown, Finn Warner, Mallory Hoffbeck, Karan Kunwar via Earth Island Journal on June 2, 2023
Nixon outdoors making his famous double-v hand gesture.

Nixon Was the Weirdest Environmentalist

Richard Nixon helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.
by Liza Featherstone via The New Republic on April 20, 2023
Climate activists march to the U.S. Capitol after the “Farmers for Climate Action: Rally for Resilience” on March 7 in D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
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Farmers Are Mobilizing for Action. It’s Not the First Time.

In the 1970s, a family farm movement famously mobilized in “tractorcades” at the Capitol to try to prevent farm foreclosures and keep farmers on the land.
by Michael Stewart Foley via Made by History on March 16, 2023
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Climate Crisis

The levels of carbon currently in the Earth's atmosphere are unprecedented in the historical and geological records. Still, the climate crisis does have a history.
Abandoned Brownwood subdivision, now the Baytown Nature Center, near Houston, Texas.

What Survives

Lacy M. Johnson walks through a nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and floodwater, once stood.
by Lacy M. Johnson via Emergence Magazine on March 9, 2023
Image from cover of "Reconsidering Reparations"

Reconsidering Reparations

Reparations must be rooted in a political context that will safeguard rather than erode the gains they make towards justice.
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via LPE Project on February 21, 2023
Nuclear power plant cooling towers billowing steam.
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Nuclear Meltdowns Raised Fears, but Growing Energy Needs May Outweigh Them

Catastrophic accidents at power plants have heightened fears about the safety of nuclear energy, but it's getting renewed attention as a way to fight global warming.
via Retro Report on January 5, 2023
Collage of meat products emerging from Pat Buchanan's head.

How Food Became a Weapon in The Right’s Culture Wars

First came the politics of right-wing grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create one toxic food fight.
by Brent Cunningham via The Nation on December 12, 2022
Fire truck at scene of California wildfire
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What If Environmental Damage Is A Form of Capitalist Sabotage?

Worker sabotage is a weapon of the weak, but capitalist sabotage causes much greater damage.
by R. H. Lossin via Made by History on November 22, 2022
Illustration of a whale by Jayne Doucette.

How Centuries-Old Whaling Logs Are Filling Gaps in Our Climate Knowledge

Using the historical record to model long-term wind patterns in remote parts of the world where few instrumental data sets prior to 1957 exist.
by Tristan Ahtone via Grist on November 2, 2022
A girl sits on a cot as she floats it across a flooded street in Baluchistan province on Oct. 4.
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A History of U.S. Interference Worsened Pakistan’s Devastating Floods

Development aid targeted for water as an economic and technical matter had environmental and financial consequences.
by Maira Hayat via Made by History on October 12, 2022
Photograph of an African American woman standing on her front porch.

America’s Oldest Black Town Is Trapped Between Rebuilding and Retreating

In Princeville, what’s at stake is not just one town’s survival but a unique window into American history.
by Jake Bittle via Gizmodo on September 21, 2022
Row of power lines

It Wasn’t Just Oil Companies Spreading Climate Denial

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.
by Robinson Meyer via The Atlantic on September 7, 2022
Robert F. Kennedy on the presidential campaign trail in 1968.

Beyond GDP: Changing How We Measure Progress is Key to Tackling a World in Crisis

Amid the global threats posed by climate change, energy costs, unemployment and inequality, the need to rethink progress is now an urgent priority.
by Paul Allin, Diane Coyle, Tim Jackson via The Conversation on August 18, 2022
Watts, CA - December 17: A resident is silhouetted walking through Nickerson Gardens, the largest public housing development west of the Mississippi River in Watts at sunset Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

How Historic Redlining Led to Extreme Heat in the Watts Community

The lack of investment in neighborhoods has resulted in communities of color living in areas far hotter than those of their white neighbors.
by Bharat Venkat via Los Angeles Times on July 27, 2022
Overhead view of Jamestown

Colonial Jamestown, Assailed By Climate Change, Is Facing Disaster

The 400-year-old site of Jamestown, Va., battered by flooding and climate change, is listed as endangered.
by Michael E. Ruane via Retropolis on May 4, 2022
Forest with rock pile
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Using Thoreau’s Notebooks to Understand Climate Change

Thoreau's time at Walden Pond has provided substantial data for scientists monitoring the effects of a warming climate on the area's plant life.
by Olivia Box, Richard B. Primack, Amanda S. Gallinat via JSTOR Daily on March 16, 2022
Protester in a march, holding a sign that reads "Bank on the future."

The Way We Talk About Climate Change Is Wrong

The language of “sacrifice” reveals we’re stuck in a colonial mindset.
by Priya Satia via Foreign Policy on March 11, 2022
Photograph of a Fish Weir

A River Interrupted

Why dam removal is critical for restoring the Charles River.
by Julia Hopkins, Robert Kearns via Charles River Watershed Association on March 3, 2022
Heavy machinery pushes coal at the Ramaco Resources Stonecoal Alma mine near Wylo, W.Va., on Aug. 8, 2017.
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Supreme Court Could Thwart EPA’s Ability to Address Climate Change

No matter the outcome of West Virginia v. EPA, the agency can take action to engage the public and make its data more accessible.
by Leif Fredrickson via Made by History on February 28, 2022
Line of forest fire volunteers in Siberia

‘A Deranged Pyroscape’: How Fires Across the World Have Grown Weirder

Fewer fires are burning worldwide than at any time since antiquity. But in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The Guardian on February 3, 2022
Aerial view of trees in Tongass National Forest, Alaska.

This Tree has Stood Here for 500 Years. Will it be Sold for $17,500?

Old-growth trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.
by Juliet Eilperin via Washington Post on December 30, 2021
Sign reading "One World" with a picture of Earth.

Climate Change Governance: Past, Present, and (Hopefully) Future

The 2015 Paris Agreement represented a shift in the climate regime towards "new governance," expanding the roles of nation-states and non-state actors alike.
by Jessica Green via Cambridge University Press on December 2, 2021
OPA rent control promotional poster

Wartime Wisdom to Combat Inflation

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.
by David Stein via Democracy Journal on August 31, 2021
Boats moored in the water in front of a row of houses on the beach. Photo by Amani Willett.

Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on August 30, 2021
Water contaminated with arsenic, lead and zinc flows from a pipe out of the Lee Mountain mine and into a holding pond
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Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmentalism Debate for Decades

“Green” public relations work has flown below the radar but made a huge impact.
by Melissa Aronczyk via Made by History on February 21, 2021

Sea Shanties and the Whale Oil Myth

Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated.
by Kate Aronoff via The New Republic on January 22, 2021
Digital art with "Help Wanted Sign", square with word "Tuna" and bottle

Solidarity Now

An experiment in oral history of the present.
by Wen Stephenson via The Baffler on January 15, 2021
A house and an american flag

A Disaster 100 Years in the Making

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.
by Eric Klinenberg via New York Review of Books on October 22, 2020
Forest on fire with two firefighters spraying water

A Note from the Fireline

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.
by Jordan Thomas via The Drift on October 21, 2020
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