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Senegal is betting on LNG as a bridge to economic development. But it may be the people of Senegal who pay the price for a risky investment. Local fishers, whose livelihoods are directly threatened by a new BP gas platform in the waters off Saint Louis, are the first in line. From @desmog.com.
“They Want Us Gone”: BP Gas Field Forces Out Senegal’s FishersTraditional fishing grounds are off-limits to locals as the government pursues a high-risk gamble on gas, say experts.www.earthisland.orgBrooke Anderson (@movementphotog.bsky.social) has spent two decades photographing social movements. “In an attention economy that thrives on distraction and disinformation, I work with communities fighting for justice to make their struggles visible." Read her essay from our Summer 2026 issue.
The Real Art Is Seeing“I refuse to cede control of the story to those who would wield it against us.”www.earthisland.org“Fire clouds” are in the news as wildfires rage across Canada and Europe — a pyrocumulonimbus storm cloud was just recorded in France for the first time. But our understanding of this phenomenon — and what makes it worse — traces back to California's 2013 Rim Fire. By @canopyoftitans.bsky.social.
The US Forest Service Is Creating Fue…Slash piles left behind from forest-thinning operations may be helping to generate pyrocumulonimbus fire storms, say researchers.www.earthisland.orgFor our Summer 2026 issue, Zain Azhar — a dentist and journalist based in Okara, Pakistan — wrote about a surprising impact of extreme heat on the human body: It breaks down human teeth. Azhar's reporting was just featured on @livingonearthradio.bsky.social by @prx.org. Have a listen!
Living on Earth: Extreme Heat and Tooth DecayThe extreme heat that’s becoming far more common in a warming world is now being linked to dental problems. As the body prioritizes sweat for cooling over saliva production, the resulting dry mouth ca...www.loe.org“The new normal: It seems the most apt way of describing a planet ... permanently out of whack." But there’s a real danger in this thinking: acceptance, “the gateway to indifference and inaction.” Today, @jasondovemark.bsky.social takes on "shifting baseline syndrome," the premise of his new book.
Are We At Least as Smart as a Frog in Hot Water?As the aberrant becomes the ordinary, we can’t let our instinct for adapting lead to climate change acceptance.www.earthisland.org“They’re blatantly breaking the law,” says Michael Garrity, director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, referring to Trump’s Forest Service. “But they can get away with it if no one sues.” Meet the two “combat biologists” who keep suing — and who keep winning — to delay logging on public lands.
The Combat BiologistsAs the Trump administration opens millions of acres of public land to logging, two aging conservationists are fighting back — and winning.www.earthisland.orgAn uprising is underway in Albania, triggered by plans for a massive luxury resort project backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in an ecologically delicate protected area of the country’s southern coast called Vjosa-Narta. It's the first serious threat to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s power.
How a Trump Family-Tied Luxury Resort Sparked Albania’s “Flamingo Revolution”What started as a fight to protect an ecologically sensitive coastal area has turned into the largest civil protest in the country’s recent history.www.earthisland.orgIn June, President Trump announced plans to put $75 million into a controversial coal export terminal in Oakland, California — injecting new life into the opposition. On @kpfa.org, Terra Verde Co-host and EIJ Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren talks with 2 local advocates about where things stand.
Keeping Coal Out of OaklandLocals rally once again as President Trump injects cash into a long-contested California export terminal.www.earthisland.orgThe Indigenous Mohana fishing community has spent centuries living on the waters of Lake Manchar in southern Pakistan. But in just a few decades, the lake’s fragile ecosystem has collapsed. And with that, an entire way of life is slipping away. Guillaume Petermann brings us this visual journey.
People of the LakePakistan’s Mohana fishing community has long depended on Lake Manchar. Now pollution is threatening the ecosystem along with a centuries-old way of life.www.earthisland.orgMichael Bond’s new book, Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind, dives into the long history of humanity’s connections to, and fascination with, the animal world. And in doing so, it challenges the idea of human exceptionalism, writes Elisa Shoenberger in this summer book review.
Animal InstinctsIn Review: Animatewww.earthisland.orgWith glaciers that cool the climate and feed South Asia’s great rivers, biodiversity corridors that link mountain ecosystems, and watersheds that sustain nearly 2 billion people, Nepal is a prime candidate for “debt-for-nature swaps.” Researcher Sahasranshu Dash explains why they're a bad idea.
Nepal’s Glaciers Are Not Collateral“Debt-for-nature” swaps will do more harm than good for this climate-vulnerable Himalayan nation.www.earthisland.orgLast year, the Trump administration shut down Climate.gov, a comprehensive public source of climate science maintained by NOAA. Now, three former NOAA staffers — all women — have crowdsourced funding, rescued key climate resources from the old site, and relaunched it as Climate.us.
Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it.After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline.19thnews.orgThe movement to recognize animals, rivers, and entire ecosystems as legal persons is gaining steam. Recently, a small town west of Montreal, Canada, decided to officially recognize trees as individuals with legal rights, including the right to regeneration, natural growth, and, of course, life.
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rightsA small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own.www.ctvnews.ca“Donald J. Trump has been obsessed with water, at least the algae-green water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that he wants to be a beautiful, pristine blue,” writes Tom Engelhardt. “When it comes to the planet he now helps oversee, water is going to be a problem and a half, algae or not.”
Donald J. Trump, Arsonist-in-ChiefAs Europe and the East Coast swelter, the president of the United States should be concerned about more than algae.www.earthisland.org“Hearts are forever bound to smaller, more intimate corners of Earth,” writes Michael Engelhard in this ode to the Grand Canyon Lodge, which burned down a year ago. On the eve of the fire’s anniversary, Engelhard reflects on a special place and what’s left when nature breaks the things we build.
The Dragon’s Breath: Lament for a Grand Canyon IconOur hearts are forever bound to smaller, more intimate corners of Earth. Their demise can bring home the reality of climate chaos.www.earthisland.org"Eighty percent of Earth is now affected by 'skyglow,' a disarmingly beautiful term for the brightening of the night sky," which can cause entire ecosystems to suffer, writes @tkdano.bsky.social in her latest #BeyondHuman column in the Journal's summer 2026 print issue.
Endless LightThe night sky is endangered. That’s a problem for wildlife.www.earthisland.orgMexico's brewing problem: Big Alcohol has taken over most of the country's mezcal industry, pushing out artisanal businesses and sucking up precious groundwater in arid regions. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Brewing DroughtMexico’s surge in alcohol production is leaving locals high and dry.www.earthisland.orgBird populations are crashing, due to habitat loss and cats and, of course, climate change. But a major reason is that birds are running out of food, which for many means insects. In his latest "Lookout" column, @jasondovemark.bsky.social learns to love the bugs that feed the birds.
On Birds and BugsIf we hope to save our feathered friends, we have to give a thought to insects too.www.earthisland.orgFrom lawsuits against the US government to major corporations such as Coca-Cola, Earth Island Advocates — the legal program of Earth Island Institute (@earthisland.bsky.social) — is known for advancing cases in defense of the planet. Learn more in this summer project report by @serenarenner.com.
Advocates for EarthReflecting on the successes and lessons of Earth Island’s legal program.www.earthisland.org