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20 Years Later: Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

Taproot Earth believes that the right to remain in your generational and ancestral home, to migrate out of harm’s way, and to return to your home are basic, inalienable, human rights.

By Faye Matthews

/ 29 Aug 2025

20 Years Later: Hurricane Katrina Revealed Why Climate Justice Must Include the Right to Free Movement

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

Deceleration’s first quarterly creative review taps into deep wells of community talent responding to the vanishing ice of warming seas and recent ICE vanishings of our family, friends, and neighbors.

By Deceleration Staff

/ 29 Aug 2025

‘Vanishing Ice, Melting ICE’—A Deceleration Quarterly Creative Review

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

A coalition of organizations led residents and media across San Antonio’s ‘red line of inequity,’ spotlighting the overwhelming burden of polluting industries that persist south of Highway 90.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 27 Aug 2025

Toxic Tour Highlights Environmental Justice Struggles on San Antonio’s South Side

Four Wildlife Success Stories—That Require Continued Federal Engagement

The Endangered Species Act has long enjoyed broad-based support. These species show success is an option.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 21 Aug 2025

Four Wildlife Success Stories—That Require Continued Federal Engagement

The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

Protecting threatened and endangered species has long been popular with Americans across the political spectrum. But can the Trump administration, which has moved to weaken the Endangered Species Act, be inspired to protect the species we love?

By Wendee Nicole

/ 21 Aug 2025

The Battle to Save the Endangered Species Act

What Homeland Security’s Social Media Says about White Womanhood & American Empire

“There’s a deliberate kind of deception being practiced here that is really cynical and really dangerous,” a historian told the 19th.

By The 19th

/ 20 Aug 2025

What Homeland Security’s Social Media Says about White Womanhood & American Empire

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

Republican lawmakers have for years refused to engage with precautionary climate resilience and disaster-response measures.

By Candice Bernd

/ 15 Aug 2025

Texas GOP Says Flood Relief Is Priority. Here’s the Climate Policy They Won’t Pass.

ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence?

These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.

By Carolina Hinojosa

/ 15 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Can Poetry Save the World from Extractivist Plunder and Climate Violence?

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

Amid rising attacks on trans people, ideas from ‘queer ecology’ can light the way toward an alternative environmental politics capable of honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beside and beyond our waterways.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 14 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance—From Barton Springs Attack to Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

In her plenary presentation at last month’s gathering of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Kaia Sand detailed the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work

By Michelle Yates

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: As Attacks on Unhoused Increase, Kaia Sand Archives Alternatives to Criminalization of ‘Unwanted Persons’

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

From her many decades working to make space for thinking at the intersections of nature, culture, and justice, scholar-‘artivist’ Kamala Platt reflects on highlights from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment’s biennial gathering last month.

By Kamala Platt

/ 13 Aug 2025

ASLE 2025: ‘Collective Atmospheres’ and the Significance of Feeling the World

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

Do not obey.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Aug 2025

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One