Environment Archives

DOOLOW, SOMALIA. JANUARY 12: Displaced Somali women carrying gathered wood for burning in the nearby IDP settlement on January 12, 2023 in Doolow, Somalia.(Photo by Giles Clarke for The New York Times via Getty Images)

Climate Change and Conflict Are Wreaking Havoc in Somalia

Nick Turse

- May. 31

A historic drought, floods, and a widening war with al-Shabab have displaced more than a million people this year.

Tidal wetlands are seen in this aerial photograph taken near Newark, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. California and environmental groups say the Trump administration misinterpreted federal law when it classified San Francisco Bay Area salt ponds as beyond the scope of the Clean Water Act. Photographer: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In a Gift to Polluting Industries, Supreme Court Rolls Back Clean Water Act Protections

Amy Westervelt

- May. 26

Industries ranging from animal agriculture to mining to fossil fuel rallied in support of the Idaho couple behind Sackett v. EPA.

Ed and Clare Lahey at their home in Lee, MA. Both Clare and Ed suffer from several illnesses that they feel came from the PCB contaminants in the Housatonic River, which runs by their home. Lee, Massachusetts

A Massachusetts Town Is Suing Monsanto for Its Cancer-Causing PCBs

Eoin Higgins

- May. 23

A proposed PCB dump site in the town of Lee has residents and town leaders seeking options to stop the plan.

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - DECEMBER 2: North Dakota national guardsmen stand guard on Turtle Island watching activists and native americans at Oceti Sakowin Camp on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on December 3, 2016 outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Native Americans and activists from around the country have been gathering at the camp for several months trying to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The proposed 1,172-mile-long pipeline would transport oil from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota, Iowa and into Illinois. on December 1, 2016 in Cannon Ball North Dakota, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

Pipeline Company Spent Big on Police Gear to Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- May. 22

TigerSwan worked with law enforcement to fight an information war against the Indigenous-led water protectors.

Aoife Murphy, left, and David Strader of Luminalt work to install solar panels on the roof of a home in Menlo Park, Calif., on July 13, 2022. California utility regulators will consider a proposal on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, to remake financial incentives for people who install rooftop solar panels on their homes. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

The “Electrify Everything” Movement’s Consumption Problem

Amy Westervelt

- May. 8

Electrification offers an opportunity to rethink how we use energy. Will we squander it?

NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES - 2017/02/22: Defiant Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors faced-off with various law enforcement agencies on the day the camp was slated to be raided. Many protesters and independent journalist, who were all threatened with multiple felony charges if they didn't leave were met with militarized police on the road abutting the camp. At least six were arrested, including a journalist who reportedly had sustained a broken hip. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oil and Water

After Spying on Standing Rock, TigerSwan Shopped Anti-Protest "Counterinsurgency" to Other Oil Companies

Alleen Brown, Naveena Sadasivam

- Apr. 13

More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret.

In this photo taken by a drone, cleanup continues in the area where the ruptured Keystone pipeline dumped oil into a creek in Washington County, Kan., Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, Jan., 9, 2023, that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek. (DroneBase via AP, File)

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” Movie Poses Terror Threat, Kansas City Intel Agency Claims

Ken Klippenstein

- Apr. 11

The Kansas City Regional Fusion Center warned law enforcement of a “developing threat” — but with no specifics.

A helicopter pushes wild horses during a roundup on July 14, 2021, near U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

Biden Is Fulfilling Trump’s Cruel Policy on Wild Horses

Christopher Ketcham

- Mar. 27

The record-breaking roundups of iconic Western mustangs are a gift to ranching and mining interests.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2023.

Lauren Boebert Waved Around Pictures of Dead Babies in Her Call to Gut the Endangered Species Act

Ryan Devereaux

- Mar. 24

Republicans used conspiracy theories and unsound science in a hearing proposing to end protections for wolves and grizzlies.

Apache Stronghold, a Native American group hoping to protect their sacred land from a Cooper mine in Arizona, gather outside the 9th Circuit Appeal Court in Pasadena, California,U.S., March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Biden Moves Forward With Mining Project That Will Obliterate a Sacred Apache Religious Site

Ryan Devereaux

- Mar. 22

In court, the feds said Oak Flat would be in the hands of mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP by early summer.