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Photograph of two of the original organizers preparing for the first Earth Day (1970). At left, a woman holds up two advertisements for the event. In front, a man stares into the camera (Denis Hayes) while holding a phone.

The Fate of Earth Day

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on April 8, 2013
Prairie landscape.

Protecting the Prairie

On the native prairies of North America, green is the problem.
by Sarah Smarsh via Orion Magazine on August 27, 2024

They Settled in Houston After Katrina — and Then Faced a Political Storm

The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.
by Jake Bittle via Grist on August 27, 2024
A busy public swimming pool.

The Decline of America’s Public Pools

As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected?
by Eve Andrews via The Atlantic on August 12, 2024
Exhibit

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.
Roll of raffle tickets labeled "National Security Priority"

How Everything Became National Security

And national security became everything.
by Daniel W. Drezner via Foreign Affairs on August 12, 2024
A pixellated landscape of buildings, spaceships, and the moon form the background of the coverpage for this article, titled "How Sci-Fi Worlds Have Changed WIth Us"

Who Killed the World?

Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves.
by Alvin Chang via The Pudding on July 12, 2024
Barges on the Mississippi River.

The Quixotic Struggle to Tame the Mighty Mississippi

An epic account of a vital economic artery and our many efforts to control it.
by Lina Tran via UnDark on June 28, 2024
SDS protestors parody the Columbia administration's suspension of students in 1968.

Kids These Days

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.
by D. G. Hart via Law & Liberty on June 5, 2024
‘Fifty Shades of White’ by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith.

Remembering the Future

Climate change, colonization, and the Navajo Nation.
by Hazel V. Carby via London Review of Books on March 27, 2024
Title card of the cartoon, featuring FDR committing money to a federal housing program.

The Tragedy and Tenacity of Public Housing in America

A cartoon report on the only policy proven to address the housing shortage and how racism, inept management, and disinvestment led to long-term decline.
by Eric Orner via The Nation on March 18, 2024
A photograph of a tree's rings.

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

The disparate and intriguing connections found in environmental history, one tree ring at a time.
by Aidan Dresang via Not Even Past on February 20, 2024
San Diego Postcard.

San Diego—A Green(Er) City: Six Decades Of Environmental Activism In A Biodiversity Hotspot

San Diego's city-wide mission to promote sustainability, combat climate change, and reduce environmental health disparities.
by Andrew Wiese via The Metropole on February 13, 2024
The front of a large truck.

We’ve Hit a Grim Milestone We Haven’t Seen Since 1981. Why Can’t We Do Anything About It?

An irresistible trend took hold 50 years ago, and we’re all paying the price.
by David Zipper via Slate on December 18, 2023
Lagoon in Majuro Atoll with tropical trees in the background and a rainbow in the sky

On the Map

The flag of Bikini Atoll looks a lot like the American flag. It has the same red and white stripes. The resemblance is intentional.
by Carleigh Beriont via Process: A Blog for American History on December 12, 2023
A photograph of the back of a woman's head, superimposed over a photograph of a body of water as if looking out over it.

What if Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used to Be?

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on November 20, 2023
Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 in New Orleans

How Hurricane Katrina Changed Disaster Preparedness

Hurricane Katrina exposed deep inequities in federal disaster response. "We never felt so cut off in all our lives."
by Yasmin Garaad via Scalawag on November 16, 2023
From left: snow, three men, and several vehicles with large tires.

The U.S. Army Tried to Build a Secret Nuclear City under Greenland’s Ice

Long before Greenland’s shifting ice threatened sea level rise, it doomed one of the military’s most audacious Cold War projects.
by George Bass via Washington Post on November 13, 2023

The War on Ecoterror

Environmental radicalism, left and right.
by Gaby del Valle via The Drift on November 8, 2023
Fossilized footprints

North America's Oldest Known Footprints Point to Earlier Human Arrival to the Continent

New dating methods have added more evidence that these fossils date to 23,000 years ago, pushing back migration to the Americas by thousands of years.
by Brian Handwerk via Smithsonian on October 5, 2023
The "fangs" of private equity dripping blood on the U.S. economy.

Conspicuous Destruction

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via New York Review of Books on September 28, 2023
Political cartoon of a column with the United States, Chile, and China; United Kingdom falling.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Redux

The author of the 20th century’s most influential history book anticipates the coming world order.
by Paul Kennedy via New Statesman on September 20, 2023
Robert D. Bullard

The Father of Environmental Justice Exposes the Geography of Inequity

Robert D. Bullard reflects on the movement he helped to create.
by Robert D. Bullard, Yessenia Funes via Scientific American on September 19, 2023
Pollution above a city

The Importance of Shining a Light on Hidden Toxic Histories

Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid via The Conversation on September 14, 2023
Engraving of people fleeing the Peshtigo fire.

In Maui, Echoes of the Deadliest U.S. Wildfire: The 1871 Peshtigo Blaze

The Peshtigo fire ran through 17 towns and killed more than 1,000. It was worsened by a dry season and extreme winds — not dissimilar to what happened in Maui.
by Kelsey Ables via Retropolis on August 16, 2023
Forest of redwoods.

The Greatest Act of Greenwashing in American History

A new chronicle of redwood logging exposes how a cadre of wealthy industrialists reaped a fortune in the name of environmentalism.
by Robert Moor via The Atlantic on August 14, 2023
Cannabis being harvested by farmers, with only their hands visible.

Withering Green Rush

California cannabis breeding is at a crossroads.
by Ali Bektaş via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 5, 2023
Heinrich Harder's "Megatherium americanum," or elephant-sized ground sloth, 1908.

The Nature Trade

Dan Flores reminds us that modern North Americans still walk in the footsteps of our fellow animals.
by Michelle Nijhuis via New York Review of Books on August 1, 2023

‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Tell the Same Terrifying Story

The “Barbenheimer” double feature captures the dawn of our imperiled era.
by Tyler Austin Harper, Amanda Shendruk via Washington Post on July 19, 2023
Axe chopping down columns

The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 17, 2023
Workers pushing Coca-Cola refrigerators.

Coca-Cola's Biggest Challenge in Greening its Operations is Its Own Global Marketing Strategy

Coca-Cola has made ambitious climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.
by Bart Elmore via The Conversation on May 23, 2023
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