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The New York Public Library revealed the five finalists for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, a prize that 'recognizes nonfiction books written by working journalists that [...]

ON FIRE The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal By Naomi Klein THE GREEN NEW DEAL Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic [...]

(Steinke, through ReconAfrica's outside PR firm, refused interview requests, and denied $30 million in personal profit from ReconAfrica stock transactions. AT THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land is so flat that I could see the top of ReconAfrica's drill rig when we were about a mile away. On April 19, 2021, when ReconAfrica's stock price was near its peak, the company announced it was acquiring Renaissance, largely to get the other half of the drilling rights to the Botswana land and get control, Steinke said, of "the entire sedimentary basin." Right around the time the Renaissance and ReconAfrica deal closed and ReconAfrica's stock price was near its all-time high, he sold off a good chunk of his ReconAfrica stock. [Extracted from the article]

WHAT THE EYES DON'T SEE A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City By Mona Hanna-Attisha Illustrated. 364 pp. One World. $28. THE POISONED CITY Flint's Water [...]

But for Putin, the blockades and the interruptions of grain shipments have already had the intended effect, causing price spikes in developing nations that depend on Ukrainian wheat and sparking wider fears about a global food crisis. Wheat, corn, rice, and other basic foods are priced and sold as commodities on global markets, no different from oil or gas. The corporatization of the world's food supply and the increasing dependence on processed food mean the demand for wheat has been rising steadily. National Affairs WITHOUT ENOUGH FOOD, there is only hunger, chaos, and violence. [Extracted from the article]

The potential carbon savings of a dietary switch is huge: A 2018 University of Michigan report found that producing a Beyond Burger uses 90 percent fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and 99 percent less water than a beefburger. "The climate movement has to be smarter about where the power really is right now", says Josie Ingall, a 20-year-old sophomore activist at Yale. Pricing carbon reaches every corner of the economy; it fuels innovation ("suddenly every carbon-reduction strategy has a revenue proposition; no more government- chosen winners and losers", Whitehouse said); it raises investment by sending a market signal to Wall Street; it puts a tax on imports from countries like China with less-strict climate policies; finally, White- house argued, a carbon price helps to unravel what the International Monetary Fund says is more than a half-trillion-dollar subsidy propping up the fossil-fuel industry in the U.S. "You want to know why the fossil- fuel industry can so easily corrupt American politics?" The problem with pricing carbon, as Whitehouse well knows, is that saying the word "tax" is political suicide in America. [Extracted from the article]

The women of West Virginia coal country are taking on a giant industry they say is killing their husbands, sickening their children, ravaging the Appalachian countryside, poisoning the air, and […]

On a cold morning in February 2005, the school gym at Nashville Community High School in southern Illinois was jammed to the rafters with local residents and kids. More than […]

The article reports on West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin's long-standing financial ties to the coal industry. Topics discussed include Manchin's political influence and his control over the trajectory of the climate crisis, his rejection of U.S. President Joseph Biden's Build Back Better agenda, and the political power and inertia that the coal industry has acquired since the 19th century.

THREE DAYS AFTER THE ATTACK on the World Trade Center, I was interviewing rescue workers near Ground Zero for a magazine assignment. At one point I happened to be standing […]

Jeff Goodell ['Cooking the Climate with Coal,' 05/06] identifies two factors contributing to our increased reliance on coal, namely the self-interest of the coal industry and the denial of global [...]