for generations, too many Hopi and Diné (Navajo) families were excluded from accessing the power grid. with help from the Inflation Reduction Act, Native Renewables is changing that. learn more in the latest story in Atmos 🧪🌎
Native Renewables is bringing off-grid solar to Navajo and Hopi homes that have gone generations without power.
what can chimps and bonobos—our closest living relatives—teach us about the climate crisis? a quirky meditation on climate compassion, empathy, and justice my Atmos Vol: 09 Kinship story, out now :) 🧪🌍
What the dueling minds of our closest evolutionary cousins—chimpanzees and bonobos—can teach us about ourselves.
i spoke to Yale historian Sunil Amrith about his new book, The Burning Earth, which traces the roots of climate change back 1,000 years. it's an environmental history, but also a history of freedom, justice, war, genocide, human folly, and so much more. my latest for Atmos 🧪🌎
In The Burning Earth, Sunil Amrith frames climate change as a symptom of humanity’s inequitable quest to be free from nature.
saving the only climate question for the very end of the debate—and halving the response time—is very uncool !! but fear not, trump and harris did invoke climate before then, too for Atmos, Amber Chen and I fact-checked everything that the candidates said on the planet's most pressing issue 🧪🌎🐋
Both candidates bragged about overseeing record-high oil and gas production, while climate change took a backseat throughout the night.
Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been in a Greenland jail for 51 days; last week, a court extended his stay until October 2 for Atmos, Watson's colleague Lamya Essemlali—to whom he's granted power of attorney—explains why it's an affront to nature and justice 🌎🐋
The arrest of my colleague and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson means that, no matter what happens now, Japan has lost the whale wars.
you don't want to miss Jarod K. Anderson's memoir, coming out tomorrow! it's nature writing at its best: raw, incisive, poignant, fresh, thought-provoking, and above all, written with the kind of jaw-dropping prose that only a poet could muster. check out this excerpt, out in Atmos today 🌎🧪
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Something in the Woods Loves You, Jarod K. Anderson shares how nature became a balm for his mental health and depression.
for these Black archaeologists searching for sunken slave ships, the Atlantic Ocean is rife with contradictions: healing and terror, freedom and death, disaster and safety. Omnia Saed with a banger for Atmos: 🧪🌎
Black maritime archeologists find both healing and terror as they excavate shipwrecks from the transatlantic slave trade.
read Katie Myers's gripping and deeply personal account from Germany and Poland—where coal mining communities that have been transformed a million times over are now being asked to change once again. new in Atmos 🌍
In Germany and Poland, defunct coal mines are being converted into tourist attractions.
tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act! learn how one solar panel nonprofit is leveraging that funding to bring climate and economic justice to underserved communities Yessenia Funes for Atmos 🧪🌎
The inaugural class of the American Climate Corps is already bringing solar energy to underserved communities across the country.
a universal basic income funded by a carbon tax could provide climate change mitigation *and* adaptation Yessenia Funes reports on the surprising links between UBI and climate change for Atmos 🌎🧪
A new study finds that governments could help pay for a universal basic income by implementing a carbon tax on the world’s biggest polluters.