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Emily Raboteau’s latest book is a meditation on how we can more clearly see and care for all we hold dear.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/05/09/mom-climate-change-crisis-parenting

Regional waste-reduction programs hold lessons for communities across the globe.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/05/03/france-zero-waste-plan

British Columbia affirms Indigenous ownership of the 200 islands the Haida have stewarded for millennia, marking a new path toward reconciliation.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/04/25/canada-native-haida-land-back

A photographer’s connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024/04/22/women-native-healing-matriarch

Four decades after the deadly gas leak, Dow Chemical continues to avoid accountability for the world's worst industrial accident.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/disaster-survivors-bhopal-accountability

It’s not just our homes that are at risk from climate change; it’s our customs, songs, and stories.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/12/story-louisiana-culture-west-virginia-climate

A decade after Typhoon Haiyan decimated the Philippines, the city of Tacloban is setting a new standard for surviving global catastrophes.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/09/climate-philippines-typhoon-haiyan

Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank fighting for the right to a homeland, and for their basic right to water—which Israel continues to deny.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/04/08/water-israel-gaza-west-bank

A bee caretaker learns just how much humans can gain from tuning in to nature’s cues.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/05/flood-bees-climate-fiction

Grappling with the fantasy and memory of flooding on California’s last remaining almond farm.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/04/california-flood-almond-climate-fiction

Evolving technology and place-based knowledge help a family connect with joy while far from home and one another.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/03/food-india-climate-fiction

When we think about climate change, we often think in terms of statistics, studies, and measurements of melting glaciers, dwindling wildlife populations, and mass human migration. It’s a grim r...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/solutions-future-climate-fiction

A father copes with the loss of his daughter by giving back to nature, as she had wanted.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/04/02/loss-daughter-climate-grief

When it comes to telling the story of climate change, we need both journalism and fiction to imagine a better world.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/climate/2024/04/01/future-climate-fiction-week-2024

Propelled by a discerning non-verbal child, a craft gets elevated to an act of devotion.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/climate/2024/04/01/glass-climate-fiction-marble

Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2024/03/29/family-education-nigeria-fulani

Why can’t Americans buy Chinese electric vehicles that could help the Biden administration meet its climate goals?

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/electric-cars-biden-climate

Trees and edible plants are being planted at churches, schools, street corners, and empty lots across the country to provide free shade and food to all.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/climate/2024/03/08/free-food-security-temperature-forest

After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight ...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/02/19/water-military-hawaii-pearl-harbor

Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli discuss the politics of pregnancy and childbirth in an era of environmental challenges.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/climate-change-pregnancy-parenting

Unhoused people in Los Angeles just survived a massive storm. What can the city do about housing before the next extreme weather event?

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/los-angeles-storm-homeless

The authors of “The Conceivable Future” argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/02/13/future-climate-parenting-solution

To produce food in the face of climate change, we may need to learn from so-called weeds.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/01/15/plants-future-weeds-climate-change

A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation—both their own and the Earth’s.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2024/01/08/poc-nature-writers-genre

Rethinking our connection to the soil can form the basis for new ways of thinking about prosperity and economy

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/environment-soil-prosperity

Decades after Washington’s native bighorn sheep were decimated, they're starting to thrive—thanks to Indigenous efforts.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/washington-environment-native-wildlife

On the Colville Reservation, tribal members are restoring wildlife populations—and with them, abundance, resilience, and reciprocity.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/12/15/washington-canada-lynx-tribe

The Colville Confederated Tribes are dedicated to “reuniting with old friends” by reintroducing fish to their shared waters and pronghorn to their ancestral lands.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/12/14/washington-salmon-tribe-restoration

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/12/13/washington-sheep-restoration-tribal

Respecting the humanity and history of soil can help us grow a more resilient future for all.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/12/07/health-soil-farming-agriculture-regenerative

Ahead of COP28 in Dubai, a new report by Oil Change International reveals a shocking boom in oil and gas production under President Biden.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/oil-gas-biden-climate

A documentary film chronicles the growth—and rare success—of a movement to take down a wall of shipping containers on the U.S-Mexico border.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/wall-arizona-border-resistance

A growing trend of building wetlands as a means of wastewater filtration has surprising benefits: thriving wildlife, vibrant tourism, and a sense of community ownership.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/water-new-jersey-pollution-wetlands

Amid the growing threats of climate crisis and habitat fragmentation, constructed wetlands are gaining popularity as natural water-cleaning systems.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/11/20/water-florida-oregon-wetlands

Indigenous writer Robin Wall Kimmerer explains why a new massive green-energy powered industrial park in western New York State threatens communities and habitats.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/new-york-industrial-indigenous-resistance

The National Climate Assessment affirms that Indigenous peoples bear both the weight of climate change’s impacts and carry knowledge that may help lessen its burden.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/climate/2023/11/16/report-climate-change-indigenous

The latest addition to the prestigious UNESCO list—the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, created by Indigenous people 2,000 years ago—“preserves the future of our past.”

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/11/13/ohio-native-hopewell-unesco

To decolonize college campuses, BIPOC students, allies, alumni, and faculty are reintroducing Indigenous growing practices.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/11/09/college-garden-native-healing

This community-developed plan could serve as a model for how to simultaneously decarcerate and decarbonize.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2023/11/07/nyc-criminal-rikers-pollution

Despite its flaws, advocates hope the film will promote awareness and understanding of the complex MMIW issue

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2023/11/06/killers-flower-moon-indigenous-women

Will New York perpetuate the shameful practices of the colonialist past—or take a stand for justice at last?

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/11/01/ny-native-stamp-seneca

Watercolor renditions of orchids, rhododendrons, and other Indigenous blooms help protect the region’s floral biodiversity in the face of climate change.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/10/31/artists-climate-change-himalayan

When Hurricane Ian hit Florida in late September 2022, it took more than 100 lives, becoming the deadliest storm to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005. Hurricane Ian

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/florida-hurricane-recovery-lesson

A coalition of churches has achieved some successes in resisting and mitigating against rent gouging and displacement after Hurricane Ian.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2023/10/19/florida-rent-hurricane-recovery

Wetlands and mangrove forests absorb water, waves, and salt to provide economic security for coastal communities.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/10/17/jamaica-coastal-climate-resilience

Western media covered the devastating floods in Libya with little mention of NATO’s role in the war that has led to crumbling infrastructure.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/media-flood-nato-libya

A newly formed organization called Climate Defiance is challenging the Biden administration to live up to its climate change promises.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/young-climate-activism

New York is the first state to mandate renewable energy in a way that explicitly rejects the neoliberal obligation to put corporate profits first.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/10/04/new-york-socialists-climate

The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2023/09/29/climate-activism-radical

The people of Lāhainā are helping each other recover and design a future that is more sustainable for the land and its people.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2023/09/27/maui-wildfire-lahaina-community-care