Activism

Maryland’s two largest health systems have taken contrasting positions on their future dealings with a controversial medical waste incinerator in...

Climate change and environmental destruction are becoming increasingly central to the human rights movement.  Droughts, toxic pollution, water shortages, desertification,...

MINDO, Ecuador—Natalia Greene ducks her head underneath the fronds of a giant fern. It is pitch black in the Chocó...

This story was published in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Observer.  Juan Benito Mancias draws his identity...

SHILOH COMMUNITY, Ala.—Their land is bound forever.  The deeds of three homeowners—Pastor Timothy Williams, Aretha Wright and Page Jones—all living...

Clutching a sheaf of typed notes with one hand and the steering wheel of her electric car with the other,...

RESERVE, La.—For Robert Taylor, it should have been a moment of celebration. For 60 years, he has watched with apprehension...

Laurel Peltier sat cross-legged at a table strewn with papers as she carefully scanned a utility bill she clutched in...

The ink is barely dry on a Colorado town’s first rights of nature resolutions, yet a motion to repeal them...

OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find yourself...