Tipping Point
A Fracked Gas Pipeline Is Coming to Brooklyn. Residents Are Invoking BLM to Fight It
Brownsville, the neighbourhood with the highest rates of asthma in New York City, is fighting to halt the construction of a fracked gas pipeline that could worsen its air quality even more.
Land Defenders Are Killed in the Philippines for Protesting Canadian Mining
Not only do Canadian mines in the Philippines degrade the environment and displace Indigenous communities, activists say, eco-defenders are targeted by the Philippine government for protesting them. A VICE World News investigation.
A Hedge Fund With Ties to Trump Is Polluting One of Brooklyn's Poorest Communities
Sunset Park residents breathe some of the worst air in New York, made worse in the summer when the city turns on a nearby natural gas plant owned by a hedge fund to help power all the air conditioners.
Expect Domestic Violence to Skyrocket After the California Fires End
Domestic violence reports shot up by almost 300 percent after the Fort McMurray fires in Alberta, one expert said. The climate crisis will only make bad situations worse.
'It's Going to Change Everything': Inuit Face a New and Worrying Climate
Indigenous peoples of the north are finding themselves at the center of a geopolitical climate change bomb that they did not cause.
This European Country Has Some of the World's Worst Air, and 'It's Too Expensive' to Fix
Skopje in North Macedonia is so polluted that the city stinks in winter. Residents blame decades of government corruption and inaction.
COVID and Climate Change Have Put California Firefighters and Residents at Risk
How can evacuees and fire crews be expected to social distance during this wildfire season?
A Legendary Black Environmental Group Is Back and Advising Joe Biden
Inside the racist nightmare that led to the founding of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, the devastating death of its first leader Damu Smith, and the political shifts that brought the network back and made it more relevant than ever.
Climate Change Has Forced Indigenous Peoples in This Alaskan City to Pay $99 for a Turkey
The Iñupiat traditionally relied on hunting for food, but that's no longer an option following the devastation to the food chain caused by a melting ice.
They Were Tired of Dirty Tap Water. So They Became the Water Authority
After going decades without clean drinking water, 15 First Nations in Atlantic Canada have signed an agreement with the federal government to create the country's first Indigenous-led water authority.
Why ‘Defunding the Police’ Is Also an Environmental Issue
Defunding the police isn’t a distraction from organizing mass numbers of people to fight the climate emergency. It’s part of the same theory of change and political vision.
It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People
Many aspects of environmental scholarship are inaccessible to Black students, including textbooks that don't acknowledge our history, and field work requirements that are ignorant of Black criminalization in the outdoors.