Environment

Trump gushes over pipelines

January 26, 2017 By Michelle Zacarias

Trump was an investor in Energy Transfer Partners, owner of the Dakota pipeline.

Trump’s EPA information crackdown sparks fear, resistance

January 25, 2017 By Patrick J. Foote

EPA employees are ordered to halt all external communications.

My favorite animal rights books of all time

January 13, 2017 By Jon Hochschartner

These works which inspired me on my journey to an animal-friendly perspective might serve the same purpose for other readers.

‘Fossil capitalism’ opens new geological epoch: The Anthropocene

January 5, 2017 By Seán Edwards

Climate scientists say earth has entered a new geological epoch. Using political economy, Ian Angus sets out to explain why.

Desert on Fire: Photo collection documents Kuwait oil disaster

January 4, 2017 By Ben Cowles

When Iraq’s army left Kuwait in 1991, it set hundreds of oil wells alight. Photographer Sebastião Salgado documented the heroes who halted an environmental catastrophe.