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Lee van der Voo on the landmark legal fight against climate change

The Oregon journalist discusses her new book, ‘As the World Burns,’ about young people’s lawsuit against the federal government For the past five years, 21 young people from across the country have wended their way through the court system as plaintiffs i ...

23 Sep 2020 - Chris May
Opinion | How the climate emergency exacerbates homelessness

In 2007, a flash flood ripped through Kathryn McKelvey’s home in a rural Oregon town, leaving her family homeless. As fires now consume the West, her story shows how the climate crisis is throwing families into poverty and homelessness. The increasing inf ...

21 Sep 2020 - Kathryn McKelvey
Climate 2020: The good, the bad and the OMG

We continue to break record temperatures and hurtle toward disaster, but there have been some notable victories, too The water that runs through the canals of Venice is clear, clearer than it has been in decades. It apparently just needed a vacation from ...

17 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson
Paradise lost? Oregon faces a natural — and political — climate crisis

Is the state poised to abandon Tom McCall’s environmental legacy? Oregon schoolchildren once regularly saw a documentary about the growing climate crisis in their state. “Clean water and clear air are imperatives of life itself,” narrator Richard Ross beg ...

15 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson
Opinion | No coincidence that redlined areas are now heat islands

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Efforts to confront racism should extend to the fight for climate justice Outrage over the recent police killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has sparked ever larger street protests with participants demandin ...

30 Jun 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
U.S. military depends on fuel – and has the carbon footprint to prove it

COMMENTARY | As the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, America’s military must be reined in Climate change is happening, highlighted by dramatically shifting weather patterns and ever more deadly storms, floods, droughts and wildfires. And the e ...

14 Feb 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...
Taxpayers prop up the biggest carbon culprit in Oregon: timber

Oregonians lose hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year subsidizing the forest industry. Enough, says John Talberth, of the Center for Sustainable Economy. The Center for Sustainable Economy is calling attention to how taxpayers subsidize one of the gr ...

18 Oct 2019 - Emily Green
What climate activism means to these teens

We talked to five teenagers at the forefront of Portland’s climate movement Youths around the world walked out of school on Friday, Sept. 20, demanding that their governments take bold and appropriate action to address the climate crisis. An estimated 4 m ...

27 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore
New Bill McKibben book: A tough message, but a tougher reality

BOOK REVIEW | ‘Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?’ Bill McKibben Given the terrifying knowledge he possesses, it cannot be easy being Bill McKibben. McKibben writes in an indefatigable effort to alert us all to the ecocatastrophe already ...

27 Sep 2019 - Joe Martin
PHOTOS: Passion, fear, activism prevail at Portland Climate Strike

Thousands of students rally in the city to demand action on the global climate crisis Their message was loud and clear: The future of our planet requires action now. Thousands of students rallied in downtown Portland on Friday, Sept. 20, demanding that po ...

22 Sep 2019 - Eric Elmore