News

2022
snow covered mountain range

Conservation groups want to buy land to protect it. One problem: It’s often illegal

Shawn Regan and Bryan Leonard

High Country News

2021
treetops of forest

Hundreds of companies promised to help save forests. Did they?

Lucy Tompkins

New York Times

fishing boat at sunset with birds flying around it and mountains in the background

A provocative proposal: sell fishing rights in protected seas to prevent poaching

Erik Stokstad

Science Magazine

person holding mask

COVID sure looks seasonal now

Rachel Gutman

The Atlantic

cleared field with forest surrounding it

Why commodity traders may finally get a handle on deforestation

Theresa Lieb

GreenBiz

Layers of heat

Energy inequality makes a hotter world deadlier for poor nations

Damian Shepherd

Bloomberg

man in the Indian heat

Rising temperatures will change air conditioning use—but not how you might expect

Molly Taft

Gizmodo

outer space photo

The cost of changes in energy use in a warming world

Frances C. Moore & Katrina Jessoe

Nature

Opinion made by the authors: "Paying farmers not to burn crops will work"

Paying farmers to not burn crops will work

Kelsey Jack, Namrata Kala, Rohini Pande, Seema Jayachandran

Indian Express

Oil rig in the ocean

The challenges of getting oil companies to decommission California's aging offshore oil rigs

Caroline Champlin

Marketplace

crates of fish at market

IISD/Pew event calls for ambitious WTO deal on fisheries subsidies

IISD SDG Knowledge Hub

oil spill on beach

Why is California still drilling for oil despite its ambitious climate goals?

Alejandra Borunda

National Geographic

irrigated fields in the Mojave desert

A system for success

Harrison Tasoff

The Current

A pumpjack brings oil to the surface in Bakersfield, California on a site leased from the Bureau of Land Management.

Bidding on a better future

Harrison Tassoff

UCSB Current

lake and forest in front of mountains

Environmentalists would buy the land they want to protect, if the government allowed it

ReasonTV

two silhouettes in front of fire

No matter the fire risk, California insurance companies can’t cancel your policy

Maria Paulina Rubiano A.

Grist