Just how important are oceans? Well, more than 3.5 billion people depend on the ocean for their primary source of food, a number that is set to double over the next decade. But with the onset of climate change, we [...]

Public orgies and online porn videos to save the planet? Why the hell not? Berlin-based Fuck for Forest seems to think it a good way to raise awareness on environmental issues. Well, we’re writing about it, aren’t we? Filmmaker Michal [...]

Kiribati, a tiny Pacific island about the size of New York City, is both “in the middle of nowhere and at the center of everything, including the climate change crisis.” Under siege from rising sea levels on all sides, the [...]

Here’s what we’ve been paying attention to this week “Days of Thatcher” by John Sturrock   As the debate over same-sex marriage moves forward in the U.S. and France, Stephanie Ott introduces us to tangible homophobic hate on a visceral [...]

Arkansas is known as “the Natural State.” Its landscape boasts everything from mountains, crystal clear natural springs, open plains and the kind of woodlands you’d see in a Disney movie. Crater of Diamonds State Park, located in Murfreesboro, is the [...]

China frequently shocks the world’s conservationist sensibilities by doing things like flattening seven hundred mountains. But even in China, where an industrialist, laissez-faire outlook on environmental issues is strikingly common, there is a limit to the environmental shenaniganery that Chinese [...]

In today’s political and pop media culture, serious discussions surrounding climate change have mostly devolved into a maddening cacophony. While CO2 emissions continue to concentrate in our atmosphere and warm our planet, pundits squabble and politicians dither. All the while, the [...]

The beginning of March has proved extra busy for those on Capitol Hill (D.C. that is, not Seattle). In addition to the spate of newly confirmed government appointees, the White House has also published a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement [...]

Feng Li/Getty Images When picturing the smog filled air of Beijing, it’s so not difficult to imagine the deadening of one’s senses. The haze appears to create an atmosphere of cinematic dystopia. In the above photo — snapped in none [...]

This week, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced the most sweeping piece of legislation to date aimed at tackling the climate crisis.  “The leading scientists in the world who study climate change now tell us that their projections in the past [...]

As consumers bearing witness to drastic species decline and environmental degradation globally, it is often too difficult to intelligibly process these alarming events as something genuinely connected to the fabric of our day-to-day lives. Thankfully, artist Alicia Escott is navigating a [...]

In a land of orange skies and empty cities, anything is possible, no matter the consequences. Along this vein, Yan Jiehe is flattening seven hundred mountains to make room for “Lanzhou New City” approximately 80 kilometers north of Lanzhou, which is a very, very old [...]

London-based animator, Steve Cutts, explores a dark theme via a blithe medium in his short, Man. The monochromatic animation packs 500,000 years of our effects on the natural world into a three minute video both menacing and accurate. Man follows [...]

Zuma Press Smog in urban China remains unyielding.  Last week, the Chinese government issued their first-ever “orange” fog warning. Today, the newly added color code seems tragically ironic.     Related: Suffocating, Beijing    

Nearly one year ago today, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton announced that they would delay a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until further environmental impact studies could be reviewed (read: until after the election). With inauguration day just [...]

ChinaFotoPress/Zuma Press Pangu Plaza office building in Beijing amidst a dreary haze of smog. Air pollution in Beijing has reached a never-before-seen level this past week, leading the government to issue the city’s first ever “orange” fog warning. The U.S. [...]

Photographer Sergey Anisimov documents the youngest adventurers of Russia’s Yamal Peninsula reindeer herding community. While others around the globe are contending with drought, torrential flooding, and fluctuating temperatures, members of this community can be assured (for now) that the vast [...]

A few weeks ago, Greenpeace revealed that clothing from Zara, the world’s largest fashion retailer, had tested positive for hormone-disrupting chemicals and dyes that release cancer-causing substances. Greenpeace tested 20 leading international fashion brands and found that all of them [...]

This week kicked off the COP 18 U.N. climate conference in Doha, Qatar — oh, you haven’t heard? There are a few reasons for that. Lack of media coverage has been due in part to the fact that the big [...]

So we’re all aware that apocalyptic drama – be it in movies, television, or books – is all the rage these days. In fact, it’s been the rage for about a decade now which has critics and laypeople alike wondering…what [...]

Photographer Jamey Stilling’s latest, and beautiful, installation covers massive solar panel landscape in the Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS), owned in part by Google, created a solar power plant with hopes of becoming the largest solar thermal power plant in [...]

For advocates of action on climate change, the science is settled — the time to move is now. For the second time in 13 months, thousands took to the streets surrounding the White House calling on President Obama to nix [...]

Rarely do we hear of happy endings in grassroots environmental activism; especially when climate change has failed to be considered noteworthy in the upcoming presidential election. Bottom line: success stories are few. Of course, it is important to remember that [...]

After letting it sink in over the last 24 hours or so, the idea that the presidential debate moderators and candidates themselves would over the course of four rounds of discourse fail to mention the words climate change or global [...]

After four debates, three presidential and one veep; 360 minutes of banter: not a single mention of global climate change. This marks the first time since 1984 that climate change and global warming have been left out of the presidential debates. [...]

Tonight, the Republican National Convention will welcome its now official nominee for President of the United States, Mitt Romney. After a delayed start due to Tropical Storm Isaac — and despite some unhappy Ron Paul supporters — the delegates have [...]

How can a media campaign help eradicate climate change? An ambitious documentary film about Green Patriot Posters, titled “POST NEW BILLS,” aims to do this by igniting world-wide awareness of this global issue. Inspired by the propaganda posters of WWII, [...]

The natural world and the new digital age seem like two things that would be at odds with each other. Yet, in the case of Huy Bui, Carlos Gomez and Jon Schramm’s art project “Plant-in City,” the two worlds fit [...]

Twenty years ago, in 1992, world leaders gathered in the cultural capital of Brazil for a United Nations conference on sustainable development that would positively shape global environmental policy for the coming decade. The precedent set for Rio+20 came at [...]

In an effort to revamp its image and control urban crowding, Singapore has created a 250-acre attraction, “Gardens by the Bay.” The garden complex includes of three different gardens—East, South, and Central—and features the world’s first so-called “supertrees.” The gardens [...]

Not exactly a new video, or story for that matter, but definitely always worth a watch. In 1977 the Voyager 1 space probe was launched, and it has been up there in the cosmos for the last 33 years. It’s [...]

The exploration for new sustainable energy sources is in a way an effort to regain harmony with our natural world. If this is the case, it only makes sense to look at the organic mysteries that have been under our [...]

The documentary Waste Land follows the journey of artist Vik Muniz to his native Brazil in documenting the lives of a group of catadores – ‘self designated pickers of recyclable material’ – who had until this point existed unacknowledged by the society in which they live. [...]

In recent years, the question of the corporation’s role in our democracy has been weighed by activists, pundits and politicians. Perhaps the ultimate arbiter of arguments over corporate personhood is the United States Supreme Court. The highest court in the [...]

Of the endless amenities afforded to the burghal dwellers of New York City, green space is one that comes at a premium. Urban planners the world over are having to consider new paradigms of metropolitan environmental integration. Two entrepreneurial architects [...]

Over the years, the severe environmental damages caused by the many fast-paced developments in Hong Kong have been well documented. Which is why it came as a surprise to many marine conservationists this week, when the South China Morning Post [...]

Abu Dhabi is looking towards the future. Situated in the crossroads of three major continents this small island capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considered as one of the fastest growing in the world today. A rich investment [...]

Plans to extend the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada, to the Gulf Shores in the United States have officially been put on hold this afternoon. In a statement, President Obama said, “the Secretary of State [...]

Bocas Del Toro in a dramatic archipelago of tropical islands just across the Panama border from Costa Rica. Less spoiled and commercialized than Costa Rica, the Ngobe people have farmed and fished the water for thousands of years. The Ngobe [...]

A so-called last minute deal at the COP17 Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa has led politicians and some media outlets to laud the cooperation of diplomats to come to an agreement to ultimately curb anthropogenic carbon emissions. Environmentalist are [...]

A recently released case study from Friends of the Earth International, the world’s leading grassroots environmental organization, has exposed energy giant Sasol as having done much to undermine the recent climate talks in South Africa. Established as a state-owned venture [...]

In an effort to protect the indigenous people of northern Kenya, a collective of artists and activists have turned to the unifying global medium that is music. Slumchella will be the stage to raise awareness protesting against the GIBE 3 [...]

Two major energy policy issues have been garnering attention recently, and they may serve to test the Obama administration’s commitment to the environment and sustainability. The simultaneous debates over the failure of Solyndra and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline highlight [...]

Despite political stagnation, everyday people continue to seek solutions to our climate crisis. Ryan Hrejac, of Ontario, Canada, began his mission to battle global water shortages in developing nations through direct action, education, and inspiration, all beginning at the age [...]

Timely solutions to the climate change crisis at times appear overwhelmingly difficult given our modern political arena and public discourse. Steady streams of misinformation have provided fodder for deniers to reinforce their entrenched views on the subject. We have long [...]

As attention in recent years has shifted towards economic recovery, special interest groups from multinational energy corporations have worked quietly yet tirelessly to distort the climate change debate. Despite being the largest energy consumers and second worst polluters of the [...]

AVAAZ.org is compiling a petition to voice concern over the response to the crisis in Somalia. Currently, a geopolitical quagmire hangs over the heads of Western leaders. © Brendan Bannon/MSF “More than 2000 people are dying every day in Somalia, [...]

News coverage has been completely overwhelmed during the month of July over the synthetic debt ceiling crisis, yielding little time for coverage of other stories. For the environmentally conscious WILD community, we want to highlight some recent developments regarding climate [...]

Last week, Bloomberg News exposed one of the worst aspects of our supposed democracy. The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a Washington-based policy organization that goes beyond lobbying. Rather, representatives from corporations including Koch Industries, Exxon Mobil and [...]

The Horn of Africa on the continent’s east coast is experiencing the worst drought in more than 60 years.  Climate scientists believe that the extreme weather patterns are a direct result of human carbon emissions.  The drought has compounded the [...]