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End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

As climate drought intensifies, San Antonio Water System’s 2025 termination of a conservation program popular among local eco-yard proponents highlights tensions between conservation and accessibility in the utility’s struggles for future water security.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 15 Jan 2025

End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

How the Rise of ‘Petro-Masculinity’ Threatens Climate Progress

‘Petro-masculinity’ occurs when rising authoritarianism, climate denial, and misogyny meet, argues scholar Cara Daggett.

By The 19th

/ 14 Jan 2025

How the Rise of ‘Petro-Masculinity’ Threatens Climate Progress

Climate Movement Leaders Centering Class Issues as Trump Returns to Power

As activists double down on the disruptive tactics of recent campaigns, the movement’s leaders see opportunities to broaden its base to include people concerned about pocketbook issues like jobs and the cost of housing.

By Keerti Gopal

/ 10 Jan 2025

Climate Movement Leaders Centering Class Issues as Trump Returns to Power

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 9 Jan 2025

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

On Grief and Revolution: Q&A with ‘From the Ashes’ Author Sarah Jaffe

Community organizer Alex Birnel sits down with labor journalist Sarah Jaffe to unpack the politics of grief and its importance to communities struggling to refashion a world of extractive violence.

By Alex Birnel

/ 9 Jan 2025

On Grief and Revolution: Q&A with ‘From the Ashes’ Author Sarah Jaffe

Take Deceleration’s End-of-Year Survey to Help Plan 2025 Coverage

As we prepare ourselves for 2025, we humbly ask our readers for help in two key ways.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 29 Dec 2024

Take Deceleration’s End-of-Year Survey to Help Plan 2025 Coverage

Why Elon Musk’s Demand for Suffering Won’t Stop at Mars

Critics describe Elon Musk’s guiding philosophy of longtermism as primed to justify ‘atrocities.’

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Dec 2024

Why Elon Musk’s Demand for Suffering Won’t Stop at Mars

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

While a legal decision that could reanimate a federal lawsuit may take until summer, the City of San Antonio is expected to move ahead with tree removals at Brackenridge Park as soon as it gets clearance from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Dec 2024

Texas Supreme Court Scrutinizes San Antonio’s Bird & Tree Removals In Religious Liberty Debate

How SpaceX Is Colonizing South Texas En Route to ‘Occupying Mars’

Reflections from 70 feet above Port Isabel, Texas, on why Elon Musk’s MAGA alignment—including his support for long promised mass deportations—will forever change the meaning of his rocket launches.

By Gaige Davila

/ 30 Nov 2024

How SpaceX Is Colonizing South Texas En Route to ‘Occupying Mars’

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

A dozen arrests and days of creative resistance spotlight determination to continue challenging Palestinian deaths and displacement, even in a new era promising increased crackdowns on protest.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 22 Nov 2024

Opposing Jewish National Fund, Dallas Protesters Plant ‘Tree of Life’ Against Genocidal Greenwashing

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

Former chief climate diplomat for the Philippines Yeb Saño discusses his work with Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the challenges climate activists face under repressive governments.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 22 Nov 2024

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0

Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight.

By Inside Climate News

/ 14 Nov 2024

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0