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The Democratic nominee should be able to answer the question: what will your climate plan do for the housing crisis?

What if the banking, asset-management, and insurance industries moved away from fossil fuels?

Vast majority of new income from GDP growth goes straight to the very richest.

“There is so much unnecessary waste. People have got out of the habit of repairing things. Reducing consumption is a way every one of us can contribute to tackling the climate emergency.”

Thousands of students formed human chains outside schools across Hong Kong on Monday to show solidarity after violent weekend clashes between police and activists seeking democratic reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing.

Our profession has been great at raising awareness. But this alone won’t succeed against the might of the oil and gas lobbyists

If natural gas plants contribute to global warming and most of them are going to be more expensive, why are so many still on the drawing board? The reasons are varied.    

“‘Please, all passengers that don’t have a U.S. visa, please proceed to disembark,’ the crew member said.”

Developing a policy 'mission' for plant-based meat alternatives would push a burgeoning sector into overdrive.

To stay within the Paris climate goals, coal and other fossil fuel power plants would have to shut down early or be retrofitted for carbon capture, a new study says.

Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.

Growth in GDP should not be pursued at any and all cost … The goal of economic policy should be collective well-being: how happy and healthy a population is, not just how wealthy a population is.

Given such an extreme future, what constitutes extremism, and who gets to decide this?

Designing cities for — and with — marginalized residents makes them work better for everyone.

The moral and prudential case for the UK to adopt a zero target sooner than 2050—perhaps as early as 2025 and no later than 2035—appears to be a very strong one

A new report shows that efforts to decouple economic growth from environmental harm, known as ‘green growth’, have not succeeded and are unlikely to succeed in their aim.

In the 4.5 billion year history of the earth, capitalism is a brief moment within the blink of an eye that is human existence. But this brief moment is a global force. It is capitalism that has placed us on a path to leave the stable climate of the Holocene. Thanks to capitalist development, the earth is currently 0.8 of a degree warmer than the pre-industrial average. Without overthrowing capitalism, we are likely to warm the earth to levels that humans as a species have never lived with.

It was once widely believed that time was on the side of progress. But now it is clear that time is something we do not have.

The relentless pursuit of GDP growth is being challenged from environmental and well-being standpoints. But where did the idea come from?