Activism

Metals and minerals form the backbone of low-carbon energy technologies like solar panels, grid infrastructure and car batteries.  Yet, in...

A group of 22 young people from across the country accuse the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit of...

Darrell Fair was in his cell at Stateville Correctional Center during a heat wave last June when he heard shouts...

One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio Díaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished.  Earlier...

BESSEMER, Ala.—They all came here for peace, and so far, the land has given it to them. For Marshall Killingsworth,...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Frederique Seidel,...

New York is home to four of the largest bitcoin mines in the country, which consume huge quantities of electric...

This story is co-published with Arizona Luminaria, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to community-centered reporting. MAMMOTH, Ariz.—When Hector Denogean Sr. got his...

VIENNA, Austria—The global science community promised late last Friday that it would rally around American researchers and rise to meet...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,”...