What do a nail artist, a grandmother, and a pregnant woman have in common? They’re all influencers shilling for fossil fuel companies on social media.

The gender gap in climate change is real: Women are more likely to suffer its effects and less likely to have a seat at the policy table. But the gap is not just in these areas. It also exists in who cares more — and does more — about the climate crisis. And over and over, researchers have found that women are simply liable to care more and to take more action than men.

With the Women’s World Cup well underway, players from all over the world are settled in the host countries of Australia and New Zealand. But to get to these countries, most players had to take very long, and very polluting, flights.

Greta Thunberg has had a busy week. Just hours after leaving a court on Monday in Malmo, Sweden, where she was fined for disobeying police orders, the 20-year-old went right back to the streets to protest.

The end of June saw a deadly heatwave in India: At least 96 people died from scorching temperatures, which hit 113 in consecutive days, alongside high humidity.

In 2021, when a mining company began setting up camp in the iron-sand-rich Indonesian coastal village of Pasar Seluma with plans to start operations, the local women agreed that they’d be leading the protests this time around.

As the world struggles to catch up with climate change — whether confronting extreme wildfire smoke in the U.S. Northeast, or some of the hottest temperatures on record in Pakistan — each country must grapple with its own particular issues.

With questions about the ethics of Supreme Court justices littering the news over their acceptance of free vacations and more from wealthy Republican donors, comes a new revelation that puts one justice — and his wife — in the crosshairs.

Fewer than one in five landholders in the world are women, but women make up about half the farmers in low-income countries.

Oftentimes, countries will arrest land defenders on made-up charges that don’t actually have to do with their activism. That is what is happening in Vietnam, where a leading climate activist named Hoang Thi Minh has been imprisoned on false charges of tax evasion.

Guyana, at the top of South America, is one of the poorest countries on the continent. It is also particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels, heavy rainfall, and hurricanes since most of the population lives on its coast, which, in some places, can lie as low as 7 feet below sea level.

Extreme heat is hard on the body. It can cause everything from confusion to seizures, let alone serious discomfort. Add a blackout to an ongoing heat wave — so no a/c — and everything gets worse.

Violet Gatensby, a Tlingit artist from Carcross, in Canada’s Yukon territory, startled a room of delegates from First Nations of the Pacific Coast at an Indigenous leadership summit on Lummi territory in Ferndale, Wash., this past week.

In the 20^th century, Oakland, Calif., was shaped by the nefarious policies of urban planners and politicians. Mayor Sheng Thao, the country’s first Hmong American mayor of a large city, has promised to “reverse decades of environmental racism” by implementing a Green New Deal for the city.

Yesterday was a landmark day for environmental justice in the United States. Advocates for the environment have long highlighted that communities of color experience a disproportionate amount of suffering from the climate crisis yet receive the least help from the government.