Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”

In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.

A look back at the spill that launched a movement.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.

The old axiom that more is better is no longer true.

What to do about climate change.

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.

Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.

A profile of environmental activist Van Jones.

What happened when the founder of North Face and Esprit bought a chunk of Chile the size of a small state, intending to live with a select group inside it and turn it case study for ecological preservation. It turned out, however, that Chileans didn’t really like that idea.