Four days after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane, much of New Orleans and its surrounding areas remain in the dark, both literally and metaphorically: Power outages persist and Entergy, the corporation responsible for fueling the region, has still not said clearly when power will be restored. …
Read More »Now Is Our Last Best Chance to Confront the Climate Crisis
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. The Earth’s climate has always been a work in progress. In the 4.5 billion years the planet has been spinning around the sun, ice ages have come and gone, interrupted by epochs …
Read More »Will America Finally Lead on Climate?
When John Kerry was a kid, his mother took him for walks in the Massachusetts woods, where they often stopped and stood among the trees. “Just listen,” she told her son. Whatever he heard, it stuck with him. Kerry, who is 77, has been on the front lines of the …
Read More »Annie Leonard of Greenpeace's Message on Climate Change
In honor of Rolling Stone’s Climate Crisis Issue, we asked artists to contribute messages about what they, their governments, and everyday people can do to stand up to the threat of climate change. From England to Jamaica to the United States, we are hearing from artists and activists around the …
Read More »Children of the Climate Crisis
Last summer, Jasper McTaggart came to the abrupt realization that life as he knew it may be coming to an end. He was nine years old. It was lunchtime, and he was eating a sandwich in the dining hall of a New Hampshire summer camp. Sitting near him, a fellow …
Read More »The Price of Greed
Sing it hard, and sing it well, Send the robber barons straight to hell. The greedy thieves who came around, And ate the flesh of everything they found. Whose crimes have gone unpunished now. Who walk the streets as free men now. They brought death to our hometown, boys. — …
Read More »Sane Clown Posse: Activists Disrupt Davos
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND —I ran into a global icon outside Davos yesterday. I recognized him by his trademark orange mop of hair and yellow jumpsuit. He stood not too far from blond men with skis slung on their shoulders heading toward a train station decorated with graffiti reading “Eat the Rich.” …
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