Sustainability

When Lake Baringo rose, families in the area lost their homes and grazing fields.

Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?

When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the wa...

When he was a child, James Owuor loved hearing the elders talk about the way life used to be. So it comes as something of a surprise that at 38, he is now the one...

The pandemic shows we’re capable of drastic change. It’s time to stop telling ourselves we can’t do the same to save the planet

The Urgent Need to Change the Language We Use to Talk About the Climate Crisis

Forty years ago, as I was leaving my friend’s house to throw a baseball out...

Forty years ago, as I was leaving my friend’s house to throw a baseball outside, his father stopped us for inspection. “Where are you going?” Peter’s father asked. “When will you be back?” And most...

A hazy view on the approach to Dubai International Airport.

Judith Butler: Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality

However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; i...

However differently we register this pandemic we understand it as global; it brings home the fact that we are implicated in a shared world. The capacity of living human creatures to affect one another can...

Women hold a banner that reads “Feminists against climate change” at a 2019 protest in Madrid.

These Women Are Transforming What Climate Leadership Looks Like. Here's What They Learned From the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing raci...

The COVID-19 pandemic, like the climate crisis, is amplifying existing racial and gender injustices in our society. TIME editors Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson moderated a conversation with two women working to create a more...

Nobel Prize-winner William Nordhaus explains why corporate responsibility is a flawed metric for holding companies to account on climate.

The Case for Abandoning 'Corporate Responsibility' When We Judge Company Practices

In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But ...

In an earlier era, green referred to grass and trees and jealous eyes. But over the past half-century, green has taken on a life of its own. The Green movement deals with the collisions and...

The Lordstown Motors Corp. Endurance electric pickup truck is displayed during an unveiling event in Lordstown, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, June 25, 2020.

Automakers Are Going All In on Electric Pickups. Will Anyone Buy Them?

'Do you think anybody really wants an EV pickup truck?'

An office park on the outskirts of Austin, Texas.

The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It's the Climate's Turn

The intertwining of the economy and climate change promises to alter the sh...

The intertwining of the economy and climate change promises to alter the shape of global politics and society for the foreseeable future