As the world moves towards electric cars and renewable grids, demand for lithium is wreaking havoc in northern Chile, says academic Thea Riofrancos

It took thousands of years for wheat to evolve from a wild grass into a highly productive source of food. Can it help address global hunger in our time?

Water piped in from elsewhere has performed a peculiar kind of magic in California’s Central Valley, writes Sayd Randle. That magic is now dimming....

According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America for centuries.

Scientists call them a 'deadly trio.' If acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable.

The long read: For decades, the way we farm has been degrading land and destroying wildlife. Now there’s a revolution coming – but is it going to create more problems than it solves?

National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.

Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.

Joint Cuba-U.S. study finds sustainable agriculture in Cuba keeps river pollution far below levels in U.S. waterways

Land is the scene of a crime and a site of liberation.Tania Murray Li, Rafael Marquese, and Monica White discuss land and the Plantationocene.

A toxic brew of economic suffering, racism, and community decline prepared the ground for authoritarian populism in America’s devastated rural areas. Trumpism will not be defeated unless the Left can promote a progressive agenda to rebuild rural America.

The fate of groundwater is closely tied to climate change and energy exploration and deserves more attention.

Law kept mining projects out of Argentina province – now water for wine-growers will be threatened in drought-stricken area

Few Green New Deal proposals include explicit attention to rural people and places. But a bold vision for rural America can challenge the ascendance of right-wing populism.

Cuba’s experience suggests that urban farming can help stave off potential famine when the climate crisis cuts food production

Research combining future climate conditions and arsenic-induced soil stresses predicts rice yields could decline about 40 percent by 2100, a loss that would impact about 2 billion people dependent on the global crop.

The debate on agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gases has been perverted to deflect blame onto farmers and avoid talking about real solutions.

Scientists devised a better way to calculate land elevations and their findings are dire: Far more cities will be inundated by climate change than previously thought.

Creek beds are bone dry and once-gushing springs are reduced to trickles as fights play out around the nation over control of nation’s freshwater supply

Middlebury College built a $12 million biomass plant on its leafy campus in 2009, enabling the school to burn woodchips to heat buildings, generate electricity...

Residual sludge from treating waste water is now a money-spinner but what are the health costs of ‘the most pollutant-rich manmade substance on Earth’?

Fires are not unusual in Siberian forests, but the concern about this year’s blazes is their scale and their proximity to population centers. Siberia also saw massive fires last year, the year before, and the year before that. The most recent fires were preceded by temperatures upward of 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the long-term average for the area. That fits within the pattern of what scientists expect as the global climate changes. As average temperatures rise, heat waves are becoming longer, more frequent, and more intense.

The fires in the Amazon are within the historical average. That’s why we should worry.

The Bolivian lowlands have been burning for over a month. Over 4 million hectares of biodiverse forests has already burned to ash–an area larger than Switzerland. Uncontrolled, the fires continue to spread across protected areas and Indigenous territories, provoking an incommensurable loss of life. The tragedy is increasingly referred to as an ecocide. The most […]

Climate change and man-made fires could set off a cycle of self-perpetuating deforestation, scientists warn.

We can repair the Earth's ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.