Activism Stories
Feature: Squeaky Wheels, Wild Fish and Carrot Sticks
In Trump’s second term, environmental lawyers are getting more strategic—and assertive.
I’ve been angry at politicians for as long as I’ve been an activist. Here’s why I still vote.
Will you vote for climate action this November or wait until your own life is at risk?
After a devastating wildfire, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.
An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.
Even when the demands of a protest are not met, it can have lasting, immeasurable consequences.
Albania’s untamed Vjosa River introduces a new model for global water conservation.
An excerpt from Patagonia’s republished version of A Forest Journey, about what the loss of trees has meant for past life on our planet.
In Southeast Alaska, tribal leaders and local entrepreneurs are helping shape a kelp industry that prioritizes Indigenous values, regenerative practices and a commitment to Alaska Native shareholders.
Francisco “Pacho” Gangotena and his wife opted to challenge the way farming was done in their region and are instead going back to the roots of ancient agriculture.
The supreme court’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.
As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.
Was It Worth It? captures the essence of a life committed to the wild and challenges readers to make certain that their answer to this universal question is yes.
First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.
An Italian town began emptying out, so its inhabitants turned to renewable energy to save it.
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.
This marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many biodiversity hotspots in the US that need more federal protection.
An excerpt from Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry.
An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.
We’re entering Earth’s sixth mass extinction, but clues about this climate crisis could be right under our feet.
John Murray’s lifelong work to permanently protect the Badger-Two Medicine from oil and gas drilling.
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.
Sheep (and their poop) could help California’s climate-driven wildfires. One couple is ushering in this idea with a small flock and some supportive fire departments.
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese communities are turning toward citizen-led renewable power.
The ups and downs of transitioning power to the people in the Chamonix Valley.
A wildlife biologist uncovers an unexpected, intersectional legacy of slavery.
In one of the last interviews he gave before he passed away, the writer and conservationist shares his reflections on the past, and the work still to do.
Climate and social justice activists are pushing the clothing industry to take better care of people and the planet.
Photographer Paolo Pellegrin captured the aftermath of the wildfires that burned through Australia in 2019.
A dead-end dirt road is the start to a new challenge—and a fight to protect South America’s Yosemite.
One woman’s decades-long fight for clean air and environmental justice.
“Castleton Tower has a pulse. We have a pulse. The Earth has a pulse.”
Climate policy expert Leah Stokes on how fossil fuel interests undermine American climate policy, and what you can do to stop it.
Snow lovers and professional athletes are mobilizing to elect climate leaders.
If we continue trying to save the world one species at a time we will fail; it is time to redefine our relationship with nature so that we save all of nature.
A reminder of why voting is essential to the protection of our public lands.
Karen Diver of the Fond du Lac Band on how protecting lands and waters can provide solutions to climate change.
Melinda Daniels is huddled under the shelter of her purple tent waiting for the rain to start, which only seems odd when you consider the context: she’s in the middle of a farm on a blindingly sunny day.
Our public lands have tremendous value above and beyond resource extraction. Here’s why they’re worth protecting.
