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More than two years ago, courageous Awajún and Wampis survivors and women defenders broke the silence.

The post Awajún and Wampis Women Demand Real Action for Their Girls first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Larry McMurtry’s 1985 cowboy epic is finding a new generation of readers online. Its revival raises an awkward question for publishing: What happened to the big, bloody, male-coded literary novel and to the men who used to read and write them?

Paulo Paulino Guajajara defended his people’s territory as a member of the Forest Guardians in the Brazilian Amazon. In 2019, illegal loggers murdered him.

The post Honoring the Indigenous Earth Defenders Who Protect the Amazon first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Statement from Laura Porter, Executive Director, U.S. Campaign to End the Death Penalty: “The extreme and gruesome spectacles of botched executions and livestreamed shootings illustrate why more and more Americans don’t trust the government with the death penalty. It is becoming increasingly clear that our state and federal governments lack the competence and the judgment […]

“Multiply the risk of a catastrophe by its disastrous consequences, and you will see that inaction is impossible.”

The post The Return of the Brazilian Far Right Is a Climate Catastrophe first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Robert Kramer’s films captured the New Left from the inside, from its promising beginning through its painful unraveling. He faded from view mostly because his work was so hard to see. In our new age of political volatility, he deserves a revival.

The Phillips curve holds that low unemployment drives inflation, meaning that controlling prices requires putting workers out of work. Its continuing influence shows how power over the money supply shapes class power.

Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. Things get a little fishy in this episode as we discuss fish farming—aquaculture, an industry that now brings in $300 billion a year. Inside Climate News partnered with the Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., to investigate aquaculture’s […]

This story is a partnership between Dylan Baddour of Inside Climate News and Neena Satija of The Texas Newsroom. Eight years ago, at the height of the shale-oil boom, a committee of industry giants and public officials unveiled a bold plan to make Corpus Christi “drought proof.” With this plan, a consultant explained to city […]

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. Inside a sprawling warehouse in northern France, millions of brown, inch-long mealworm larvae writhed in purple trays stacked 60 feet high. Grown by a company called Ynsect, these larvae were […]

A reply to Dave Kellaway, before the Budget.

NuScale's ill-fated reactor likely won't have the moon OR the stars

At its best, the Left has championed the cause of freedom against both political and economic tyranny. Does the spread of scourges like social media addiction and sports betting justify more restrictions on individual liberty than we’ve typically accepted?

Religious identity has become an unusually prominent battleground in next year’s French election. During the pope’s visit to the country last week, left-wing France Insoumise resisted ultraconservative attempts to monopolize Catholic identity.

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. For two thousand years, the Ambracian Gulf in western Greece provided life to its Mediterranean neighbors. Today, it’s an industrial graveyard.  Trace the Gulf’s northern coast, and you’ll uncover beaches […]

This investigation was reported in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. CALIPATRIA, Calif.—On a border-town road surrounded by alfalfa and grain fields, William Cooper stopped before a dusty, vacant lot. Its owner, he said, is one of many investors drawn to the arid Imperial Valley by a critical mineral propelling the […]

Queen conch larvae drift for two to three weeks before settling into seagrass, where their first food grows on the thin green blades. This is where they spend most of their first year, buried in the sand.  In the Exumas region of the Bahamas, just south of East Sampson Cay, Shedd Aquarium researchers recorded the […]

by Stephen Prager

A lawyer for 35-year-old Yehonatan Ovadia said his arrest by ICE demonstrates how “equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism produces absurd results.”

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was about to begin when President Trump abruptly reversed course.