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In this Sept. 2, 2021, file photo provided by the US Department of State, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry attends a meeting with Yang Jiechi, director of China's Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs
Climate Change
US Climate Envoy John Kerry heads to China with a ‘clean energy revolution’ message, adviser says
Mossbrae Falls in the Shasta Cascade area in Dunsmuir, California. In many spiritual traditions, like the Lakota in the US, water represents “the living relationship between you and I and all things."
Belief
Spiritual leaders seek to spur an ‘ecological conversion’
The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. 
Environment
Plan to divert water to Brazil’s Belo Monte dam threatens Indigenous peoples and wildlife
Women perform on stage in a pop band. One throws her hand in the air.
Climate Change
Can K-pop stars wield their celebrity to influence climate action?
A selection of silver refrigerators on display at an appliance store.
Environment
A climate reporter walks into an appliance store…
Student activists carry posters and shout slogans as they participate in a protest march against climate change in Delhi, India, March 19, 2021.
The Big Fix
Author Kim Nicholas on the five stages of ‘radical climate acceptance’
Two people gather locusts from trees
Environment
This start-up turns locust swarms in Kenya into animal feed
A man walks through a plaza during the day
Lifestyle & Belief
Will car-obsessed Madrid join Europe’s biking and walking trend? 
A group of people hold up a large white sign with black letters and a yellow X through it.
The Big Fix
Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle
Four people wearing blue jackets and green caps ride in a boat on a lake.
Environment
Fishermen risk their lives to defend a vital lake in Colombia
National Geographic Explorer and wildlife DJ Ben Mirin.
Music
‘Nature is always singing’: Now you can make your own music from nature’s sounds
A worker arranges yellow ginseng displays behind glass cases
Business, Economics and Jobs
American ginseng farmers battered by trade wars and pandemic
Nuclear reactors of No. 5, center left, and 6 look over tanks storing water that was treated but still radioactive, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Energy
Plan to dump Fukushima’s radioactive water into ocean causes outcry
A man wearing glasses looks at a globe.
The Big Fix
Climate change scientist trades in the halls of Oxford for YouTube
A solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China's Shanxi Province, Nov. 27, 2019. China's Premier Li Keqiang announced that the country would target a reduction of 18% in carbon intensity over the course of the next five years as pa
Climate Change
China’s moderate climate goals allow emissions to continue to rise
A yellow frog sits on a green leaf
Business
This frog farm in Colombia is trying to put poachers out of business
The aspern Seestadt district is designed with high urban density and extremely high energy efficiency standards as a priority. 
The Big Fix
Vienna’s green mini-city offers a model for sustainable, urban living
Protesters demand the release of Indian climate activist Disha Ravi
Protest
India cracks down on climate activists supporting farmer protests
Joe Biden climate executive action
Biden administration
Biden vows to take a ‘whole of government’ approach to climate change
An axis deer looks up at a giraffe on Sir Bani Yas Island near Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Friday, June 9, 2017.
Environment
A new book explores culture within the animal kingdom
A Native American elder performs a ritual ceremony using a feather.
COVID-19
COVID-19 deaths among tribal elders threaten cultural loss
A portrait of Mamphela Ramphele
Lifestyle & Belief
Joe Biden has called for unity. The African concept of Ubuntu offers a path.
North Atlantic right whale with calf in blue-green waters
Environment
Little time left to save the North Atlantic right whale
Joe Biden inauguration
Environment
Biden brings US back to Paris climate accord. Now what?
Aerial shot of green trees in large forest.
The Big Fix
Global demand for carbon offsets to combat emissions is growing — but the supply is unreliable
Brown arches naturally formed from stone in Arches National Park
Biden administration
Under Biden, US Interior Department will undergo a major directional shift
The Biden administration's nominee for secretary of interior, Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, from New Mexico, speaks at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 19, 2020.
Biden administration
Deb Haaland, Biden’s interior secretary nominee, says she’ll be ‘fierce for our planet’
Merrick Garland nominated for attorney general
Biden administration
Merrick Garland — once blocked from high court — is set to become attorney general
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge caribou aerial
Environment
Trump administration tries to sell off Arctic wildlife refuge in its final days
Kristal Ambrose, Bahamas Plastic Movement
Environment
Bahamas Plastic Movement founder wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Stacey Abrams 2020 election
Politics
Georgia’s green voters helped deliver the Senate to the Democrats
Haliade-X wind turbines — nearly the size of the Eiffel Tower — are a game changer for the global offshore wind industry. A single turbine can power over 10,000 homes at competitive rates. 
The Big Fix
Enormous wind turbines may be coming to a coast near you
Fossilized tree rings
Climate Change
The history of the world is written in tree rings
White-tailed buck
Health & Medicine
Lead in hunted meat poses health risk to families and food banks
Three wind mills powered on yellow platforms in the ocean.
The Big Fix
How one Danish energy company went from black to green in 10 years
Smoke rises from the Bobcat Fire burning near Mount Wilson in the Angeles National Forest, near Los Angeles, Sept. 23, 2020.
The Big Fix
This author argues that fighting climate change means focusing on ‘Earth repair’
Firefighters control a spot fire near Bredbo, south of the Australian capital, Canberra, Feb. 2, 2020.
The Big Fix
California and Australia look to Indigenous land management for fire help 
Children play in the floodwaters after heavy rains in Bekasi, near Jakarta, Indonesia, Feb. 25, 2020.
The Big Fix
Could migration be a solution to the climate crisis?
Extinction Rebellion protestors march on the Dail (parliament) on Budget day in Dublin, Oct. 8, 2019.
The Big Fix
Activists took the Irish govt to court over its national climate plan — and won
Building reads "climate emergency" with flares of red and orange hues on the front of the building
Climate Change
UN climate chief on coronavirus and climate change: We must ‘address these two fundamental, existential crises together’
A young woman stands on stage and rehearses her poem.
The Big Fix
Global network of young people writes poems to cope with climate crisis
A facility for capturing carbon dioxide from the air of Swiss Climeworks is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. 
The Big Fix
Can direct air capture make a real impact on climate change?
Black Lives Matter protest
Identity
A global push for racial justice in the climate movement
Sumbanese villagers work on a field seeding peanuts in Hamba Praing village, Kanatang district, East Sumba Regency, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, Feb. 23, 2020.
The Big Fix
Anti-poverty program in Indonesia also helps save forests, study shows
Milan's "Open Streets" plan makes way for more cyclists and pedestrians. 
The Big Fix
After lockdown, Milan rolls out plan to open more streets to cyclists and pedestrians
Clouds cover the skies over the river Ganges ahead of Cyclone Amphan, in Kolkata, India, May 19, 2020.
Natural disasters
How to deal with a cyclone in the middle of a pandemic?
Environmental activists of Swiss Klimastreik Schweiz movement hold banners, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in front of the opera house on the Sechselaeutenplatz square in Zurich, Switzerland, April 24, 2020.
The Big Fix
What history tells us about building climate coalitions
Alongside tulips and windmills, the global image of Amsterdam is one of a city entwined with water.
The Big Fix
Amsterdam’s coronavirus recovery plan embraces ‘doughnut economics’ for people and the planet
Massive light pink cherry blossoming tree in Vancouver with two people sitting on a park bench underneath it
Environment
Canada closes most of its great outdoors to curb COVID-19
A man in the middle of a smog-filled street
Environment
Shutdowns have led to cleaner air quality. Is it sustainable?
Prickles the sheep with a massive coat of fleece
The incredible journey: Prickles the Australian sheep returns home after 7 years
Corals grow in the shallow waters around a small island in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. 
The Big Fix
This researcher finds hope in ‘bright spots’ among coral reefs
two women pose for a photo with a dog in the snow.
Polar
Tips to survive self-isolation from citizen scientists on a remote Norwegian island
American Airlines passenger planes parked due to flight reductions made to slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on March 23, 2020.
The Big Fix
Coronavirus has changed how we transport goods and ourselves. But will it last?
A flight attendant wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) takes body temperature measurements of passengers with a thermometer on a Shanghai Airlines flight in Shanghai, China, March 25, 2020.
The Big Fix
Coronavirus is changing how people think about fighting climate change
The small Caribbean island of Dominica has been building back since Hurricane Maria flattened much of the island in 2017. It’s trying to build back stronger, and become what it calls the first climate resilient nation.
The Big Fix
How a small Caribbean island nation is trying to become climate resilient
Agricultural farm land is shown near the Salton Sea and the town of Calipatria in California, May 31, 2015. California is enduring its worst drought on record.
The Big Fix
We’re launching a new climate change solutions segment. Here’s why.
A man picks through a huge heap of plastic trash
Environment
‘More waste, better taste’: This Garbage Café offers food in exchange for plastic
Two men bend over a small fire in the forest
Climate Change
Reviving traditional fire knowledge in Australia: ‘Fire is something we live with’
Democratic 2020 US presidential candidates (left to right) former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate.
Environment
For the first time, a climate journalist will moderate a presidential debate