Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
Environment
The Budget Bill Was a Boon for This Chilean Billionaire
Jun 4, 2025 The budget reconciliation bill includes a devastating natural resources giveaway to a Chilean billionaire with ties to the Trump family.
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Using Nature to Heal Nature
Oct 3, 2023 A startup wants to store plants in the bottom of the Black Sea to save humanity from its carbon footprint.
Palauan President Urges Global Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining
Sep 28, 2023 Surangel Whipps Jr., president of the island nation, spoke at the U.N. General Assembly about the potentially devastating consequences of deep-sea mining.
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Neocolonialism: Pillaging the Earth for the ‘Climate’
Aug 28, 2023 They saw the pillage of their sacred site as another iteration of rapacious techno-industrialism, the specialty of the white man’s culture.
Americas
Amazon Protection Pact Falls Short on Tackling Organized Crime
Aug 15, 2023 The Belém agreement takes important strides to protect the Amazon, but overlooks drug trafficking and transnational crime groups.
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Study Finds Ocean Mining Drastically Disrupts Biodiversity
Aug 11, 2023 Just two hours of mining caused significant habitat loss to fish and shrimp.
Environment
The Global Race for Lithium Arrives in Rural Brazil
Aug 3, 2023 The global energy transition is set to require a staggering increase in the lithium supply—and rural Brazil is the latest zone of extraction.
Environment
Alaska Salmon Face a Tide of New Mines
Dec 1, 202240 Dead, Many Feared Buried in Mud After Brazil Dam Collapses
Jan 26, 2019 Rescue workers labor in deep waste to try to reach employees of the Vale mining complex that were swept up in the debris flow.
Bill Could Put the Amazon at Risk by Opening Huge Area to Mining
Mar 2, 2017 Environmental campaigners fear that removing protection from millions of acres of rainforest will facilitate exploitation.
