In 2018, hundreds of thousands of protesters joined France's yellow vest movement against French President Emmanuel Macron’s carbon tax hike. (Photo by Christophe Leung / CC BY 2.0) This is your first ...

Last month’s killing of a nonbinary activist known as “Tortuguita,” who was shot during an occupation protest in Atlanta’s South River Forest, marked the first police killing of a demonstrator in the ...

It’s not acceptable to address the well-being of the planet and humankind while ignoring all other animals, including those raised for food. The environmental movement as we know it today is a lot ...

I was present at the glorious birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. That was the year of the first-ever ‘Earth Day.’ Earth Day featured heady optimism and a sense that now, at last, ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that organized civil society and social mobilization are key, yet often unrecognized, agents of global biodiversity ...

Rachel Carson, a scientist and writer from rural Pennsylvania, published Silent Spring 60 years ago. Many credit this book, which meticulously documented the damage that DDT pesticides were inflicting ...

With the 2015 publication of "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis' ecological manifesto, the Catholic Church stepped powerfully and clearly into the now-decadeslong public ...

My wife, Harriet is a professional environmentalist. She has a degree from the University of London, worked in the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, ...

The annual celebration of our planet is next week, but do you know why we celebrate? Here's what to know about Earth Day. Earth Day is on April 22 every year in the United States, but other parts of ...