Activism Stories
An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.
Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.
Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colorful quilts to deconstruct and sew into original clothing items for her three preschool-age kids, or to sell in her online shop, Napkin Apocalypse.
John Murray’s lifelong work to permanently protect the Badger-Two Medicine from oil and gas drilling.
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.
Sheep (and their poop) could help California’s climate-driven wildfires. One couple is ushering in this idea with a small flock and some supportive fire departments.
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese communities are turning toward citizen-led renewable power.
The ups and downs of transitioning power to the people in the Chamonix Valley.
A wildlife biologist uncovers an unexpected, intersectional legacy of slavery.
In one of the last interviews he gave before he passed away, the writer and conservationist shares his reflections on the past, and the work still to do.
Climate and social justice activists are pushing the clothing industry to take better care of people and the planet.
Photographer Paolo Pellegrin captured the aftermath of the wildfires that burned through Australia in 2019.
A dead-end dirt road is the start to a new challenge—and a fight to protect South America’s Yosemite.
One woman’s decades-long fight for clean air and environmental justice.
“Castleton Tower has a pulse. We have a pulse. The Earth has a pulse.”
Climate policy expert Leah Stokes on how fossil fuel interests undermine American climate policy, and what you can do to stop it.
Snow lovers and professional athletes are mobilizing to elect climate leaders.
If we continue trying to save the world one species at a time we will fail; it is time to redefine our relationship with nature so that we save all of nature.
A reminder of why voting is essential to the protection of our public lands.
Karen Diver of the Fond du Lac Band on how protecting lands and waters can provide solutions to climate change.
Melinda Daniels is huddled under the shelter of her purple tent waiting for the rain to start, which only seems odd when you consider the context: she’s in the middle of a farm on a blindingly sunny day.
Our public lands have tremendous value beyond the extractive. Here's a refresh on why they're worth protecting.