Perspectives

During a trip to a water conference, an environmental justice activist considers what it takes to support his community without letting go of the importance of healing.

The Games for Change Student Challenge helps young designers gamify solutions to real-world problems.

Four NRDC staffers consider the legal protections that changed their lives and how all rights, including those related to the environment, are intimately connected.

Dr. Cheryl Holder helps her patients and fellow physicians find holistic solutions to coping with the intertwined impacts of sickness and climate change.

This National Poetry Month, four writers champion the legendary local activist who launched a movement while they continue to grapple with the work left to be done.

From saguaros to sacred waters, the writers weave their personal relationships to the environment with the ancestral.

In images both beautiful and disturbing, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen documents how sea level rise is altering coastlines—and lives—around the world.

A birding podcast host, a science journalist, and a conservationist strive to share their passion with more BIPOC birders like themselves.

The mash-up of art and science examines humanity’s impact on the world—and our power to do something about it.

Long after the age of fossil fuels has drawn to a close, a Cherokee teenager attending an elite tribal school puts the last ghosts of coal and oil to rest. A story that retells the experiences of those who lived through the tumultuous transition away from fossil fuels, published by Fix, Grist’s solutions lab, with support from NRDC.