Environment Archives

Activists display banners calling for action on climate change and against world poverty as they arrive on St. Peter's Square prior to Pope Francis' Sunday Angelus prayer at the Vatican.

Social Justice

Growing Concern Over Climate Change Is Creating Interfaith Dialogue

Two years after Pope Francis launched Laudato Si, the Vatican's plea to save the Earth, Trump rejected its tenets and the Paris Agreement. But people of all faiths are unified globally to beat climate change.

Justin Catanoso

Social Justice

Ethiopia’s First Botanic Garden Has Global Ambitions for Its Flora

Gullele Botanic Garden is an oasis of endemic plant life on the outskirts of Ethiopia's largest city, Addis Ababa.

Elias Gebreselassie

Social Justice

Environmental Protection Agency Head Leaves G7 Environment Meeting Early

The EPA head departed Italy after a few hours of a planned two-day meeting with the Group of Seven.

Francie Diep

OceanaGold's open pit gold and copper mine in Didipio.

Social Justice

Mining Company Interested in the Philippines’ Precious Metal Resources Faces Powerful Opposition

Activists point to rights abuses, ecological disasters, and what they believe to be unfair distribution of profits.

Keith Schneider

Environment

Thirteen States Will Challenge Trump on Vehicle Emissions

Top officials said they will challenge any effort by the Trump administration to roll back vehicle emissions restrictions in court.

Nick Hagar

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks during a briefing at the White House on June 2nd, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

Technology Transfer Could Drive Down Global CO2 Emissions by 25 Percent

Exporting green technology will help lower emissions—but not without pools like the Green Climate Fund.

Bob Berwyn

A quarry in a deforested section of the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Social Justice

A Smarter Approach to How We Feed People Could Help Save Endangered Animals

Limited resources combined with the rate at which the number of people is increasing makes the need for solutions especially urgent.

John C. Cannon

California Governor Jerry Brown gives a speech during the Clean Energy Ministerial international forum in Beijing on June 7th, 2017.

Environment

How China and California Are Proving Trump Wrong on Climate

The unlikely climate partnership between China and California shows how Trump's Paris decision fails by its own logic.

Lucia Graves

The German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg, Germany, uses a Mistral supercomputer to harness vast amounts of data for analyzing climate change and creating simulations for future climate activity on June 7th, 2017.

Environment

Viewfinder: A Climate Change Supercomputer

The German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg, Germany, uses a Mistral supercomputer to harness vast amounts of data for analyzing climate change.

Pacific Standard Staff

An Indian one-horned rhinoceros chews grass as a zookeeper stands alongside at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, the capital city of the northeastern state of Assam.

Social Justice

Fighting to Protect the Rhinos in India’s Wildlife Parks

In 2005, conservationists launched a plan to establish rhino populations in seven parks in Assam state. It proved to be an even bigger challenge than expected.

Shreya Dasgupta