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Playing Our Part Sea lions are renowned for their propensity for play—a reminder of what it means to live lightly.

Deep Ecology

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism

Why I Am Swimming 450km To Help Stop Waste Colonialism Accra’s waterways are bubbling with synthetic microfibers and material debris after decades of nonstop waste-dumping by countries in the Global North. Yvette Tetteh is swimming the length of the country’s longest river to draw attention to the urgency of the problem.

Ethical Fashion Anthropocene

Salt of the Earth: Preserving the Great Salt Lake

Salt of the Earth: Preserving the Great Salt Lake

Salt of the Earth: Preserving the Great Salt Lake The Frontline dives into the history of Indigenous people harvesting salt from the drying Great Salt Lake.

The Frontline Indigeneity

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System?

Can Made-To-Order Brands Slow Down the Fashion System? The rise of made-to-order fashion labels is good news for the industry’s sustainability credentials, reducing waste, minimizing stock surplus, and encouraging clothes to treasure. But the scale of impact remains uncertain.

Ethical Fashion

Order Volume 07: Prism

A prism is a multidimensional body that refracts, disperses, or in some cases, distorts light. Atmos Volume 07: Prism is a study of light, color, dimension, and perspective.

Why Cop City Goes Against Jewish Values

Why Cop City Goes Against Jewish Values

Why Cop City Goes Against Jewish Values Two Jewish advocates argue that the Jewish community should stand against Atlanta’s proposed police training facility on The Frontline.

The Frontline Movement Building

Saving Grace

Saving Grace

Saving Grace Deer have an artful elegance with which they attempt to avoid their attackers. What lessons can they impart on us about grace?

The Overview Deep Ecology

Raveena Aurora Leads with Love

Raveena Aurora Leads with Love

Raveena Aurora Leads with Love Through her hypnotic, soulful music, the Indian-American singer is imagining a Desi-futurist world that celebrates queerness, builds community, and empowers radical self-love.

Art & Culture Earth Sounds

What’s the Real Cost of Mezcal?

What’s the Real Cost of Mezcal?

What’s the Real Cost of Mezcal? The Frontline talks to communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, striving to produce mezcal sustainably—but soaring demand from across the border makes it tough.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians

Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians

Composing Climate Change: The Radical Legacy of Black Musicians White musicians are often credited for their activism. But Black artists were using music as a means of protesting climate injustice long before.

Art & Culture Earth Sounds

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth

Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth Over 300 bills have been introduced just this year in an attempt to erase queer people, including a total ban of trans healthcare in, among other places, Texas. Atmos contributor Riley Black explores why planting seeds of hope is essential to the fight against bigotry.

Identity & Community Queer Ecology

The Willow Project Would Be a Public Health Crisis for Alaska

The Willow Project Would Be a Public Health Crisis for Alaska

The Willow Project Would Be a Public Health Crisis for Alaska The Willow project proposal would expand oil infrastructure on Alaska’s North Slope. The Frontline talks to an Iñupiaq leader who shares their public health concerns.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

Why Look At Animals?

Why Look At Animals?

Why Look At Animals? Photographer Yana Wernicke turns her lens on two young women who have established profound relationships with animals typically considered solely for their economic value, striving to close the gulf between ourselves and the other animals we live alongside.

Photography Art & Culture

Sturdy as an Oak

Sturdy as an Oak

Sturdy as an Oak Storms are always going to come. Looking to oak trees, we can learn how to weather them.

The Overview Deep Ecology

Women's History Month

Celebrating the women who are blazing the trail

Amazon activist Maria Leusa Munduruku in the forest by Liliana Merizalde

Amazon activist Maria Leusa Munduruku in the forest by Liliana Merizalde

The Amazon Is A Woman No one understands the violence being committed against the Amazon Rainforest like the Indigenous women who call it home. With deforestation rates at an all-time high under a tyrannical right-wing regime, the women of the forest are fighting for their lives to save the most biodiverse place on Earth.

Changemakers Indigeneity

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops The community organizer is the founder of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing co-operative run by immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of color. Together, they’re setting the tone for what an equitable fashion system could be.

Ethical Fashion

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy Who was the first scientist to make findings relevant to climate science today? The Frontline dives into a woman that history erased—and the women who continue to pave the path today.

The Frontline Changemakers

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall Over the last few years, youth activists have taken on the climate crisis as the cause of their lives, largely because it will determine the course of them. And yet, as these leaders and organizers tell their environmental heroes—the ones who paved the way and inspired them to fight in the first place—they can’t do it alone. Here, activist Jamie Margolin and primatologist Jane Goodall discuss the importance of forest conservation and the interconnection of species in the fight against climate change.

Changemakers

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity We are but one strand in the web of life. To keep the web whole, activist and author Vandana Shiva argues that we must honor the wisdom of biodiversity.

Deep Ecology Science & Nature

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture What does it take to have a challenging conversation in the era of cancel culture? For MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross, the answer lies in calling in: a communicative strategy rooted in compassion, accountability, and restorative justice that recognizes the many realities of a muddled world.

Art & Culture Identity & Community

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater The ocean churns with life, from the surface we swim on to the deep underwater currents below. Photographer and conservationist Cristina Mittermeier talks about how the ocean powers life on Earth—and how urgently we must protect it.

Science & Nature Ocean Life

Women's History Month

Celebrating the women who are blazing the trail

Amazon activist Maria Leusa Munduruku in the forest by Liliana Merizalde

Amazon activist Maria Leusa Munduruku in the forest by Liliana Merizalde

The Amazon Is A Woman No one understands the violence being committed against the Amazon Rainforest like the Indigenous women who call it home. With deforestation rates at an all-time high under a tyrannical right-wing regime, the women of the forest are fighting for their lives to save the most biodiverse place on Earth.

Changemakers Indigeneity

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops

Hoda Katebi’s Mission to Abolish Sweatshops The community organizer is the founder of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing co-operative run by immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of color. Together, they’re setting the tone for what an equitable fashion system could be.

Ethical Fashion

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy

Eunice Foote: The First Climate Scientist’s Legacy Who was the first scientist to make findings relevant to climate science today? The Frontline dives into a woman that history erased—and the women who continue to pave the path today.

The Frontline Changemakers

Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall

A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall Over the last few years, youth activists have taken on the climate crisis as the cause of their lives, largely because it will determine the course of them. And yet, as these leaders and organizers tell their environmental heroes—the ones who paved the way and inspired them to fight in the first place—they can’t do it alone. Here, activist Jamie Margolin and primatologist Jane Goodall discuss the importance of forest conservation and the interconnection of species in the fight against climate change.

Changemakers

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity

Vandana Shiva on the Wisdom of Biodiversity We are but one strand in the web of life. To keep the web whole, activist and author Vandana Shiva argues that we must honor the wisdom of biodiversity.

Deep Ecology Science & Nature

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture

Calling In: Loretta J. Ross’s Antidote to Cancel Culture What does it take to have a challenging conversation in the era of cancel culture? For MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross, the answer lies in calling in: a communicative strategy rooted in compassion, accountability, and restorative justice that recognizes the many realities of a muddled world.

Art & Culture Identity & Community

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater

Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater The ocean churns with life, from the surface we swim on to the deep underwater currents below. Photographer and conservationist Cristina Mittermeier talks about how the ocean powers life on Earth—and how urgently we must protect it.

Science & Nature Ocean Life

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance

Palestinian Tatreez: Embroidering Resistance and Remembrance Palestinian women have played an integral role in resisting the Israeli occupation. Tatreez—an artful embroidery technique with radical roots—is just one of the many tools they have utilized.

Ethical Fashion Identity & Community

The Ohio Train Derailment: Tracing the Origins of Disaster

The Ohio Train Derailment: Tracing the Origins of Disaster

The Ohio Train Derailment: Tracing the Origins of Disaster The Frontline zooms into the St. Louis region where the Ohio train that derailed last month started its journey.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

From Reservation Dogs to Murder in Big Horn, The Rise of Native Media

From Reservation Dogs to Murder in Big Horn, The Rise of Native Media

From Reservation Dogs to Murder in Big Horn, The Rise of Native Media Real Native American representation is making a splash in the mainstream entertainment industry, writes Atmos columnist Ruth Robertson. After decades of erasure, films and TV shows are focusing on the issues our communities are wrestling with on a daily basis.

Art & Culture Indigeneity

One Year On, The Cultural Losses of War in Ukraine

One Year On, The Cultural Losses of War in Ukraine

One Year On, The Cultural Losses of War in Ukraine How one woman is leading Ukraine’s Museum Crisis Center in the race to preserve the country’s vast cultural legacy from permanent destruction.

Art & Culture Anthropocene

The Angels of the Nile Are Dying

The Angels of the Nile Are Dying

The Angels of the Nile Are Dying The Nile River has already witnessed the displacement of Nubians in Egypt. The Frontline explores how climate change threatens their cultural connections to the river even more.

The Frontline Identity & Community

The Mobile Darkroom Making Photography Accessible to Turkish and Syrian Youth

The Mobile Darkroom Making Photography Accessible to Turkish and Syrian Youth

The Mobile Darkroom Making Photography Accessible to Turkish and Syrian Youth Sirkhane’s aim is to grow the creative confidence of young refugee communities. A caravan-turned-darkroom is traveling the Turkish-Syrian border to make that happen.

Art & Culture Photography

How Prisons and Jails Can Go Green

How Prisons and Jails Can Go Green

How Prisons and Jails Can Go Green A formerly incarcerated writer argues for The Frontline that, as long as prisons exist, they should reduce their environmental impact.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

Staying Alive

Staying Alive

Staying Alive Crocodilians have endured apocalypse, swimming murky waters for millions of years. What’s their secret to survival?

The Overview Deep Ecology

Where’s the End of Hawai’i’s Water Crisis?

Where’s the End of Hawai’i’s Water Crisis?

Where’s the End of Hawai’i’s Water Crisis? The Frontline talks to water protectors in O’ahu, Hawai’i, who are sounding the alarm over growing threats to their precious water.

The Frontline Environmental Justice

Climate Love (And Lies) on Dating Apps

Climate Love (And Lies) on Dating Apps

Climate Love (And Lies) on Dating Apps Roses are red, violets are blue, can I talk about climate change denial with you?

Art & Culture Anthropocene

A Poetic Lesson on Black Anatomy

A Poetic Lesson on Black Anatomy

A Poetic Lesson on Black Anatomy Denisse Ariana Pérez reimagines the anatomy of the Black body through poetic words and images in a captivating film that celebrates all that Blackness is and can be.

Black Liberation Art & Culture

Jacqueline Patterson: Honoring Legacy in the Environmental Movement

Jacqueline Patterson: Honoring Legacy in the Environmental Movement

Jacqueline Patterson: Honoring Legacy in the Environmental Movement The Frontline talks to environmental and climate justice leader Jacqueline Patterson on the legacies of the present and past.

The Frontline Changemakers

Coming of Age

Coming of Age

Coming of Age For thousands of years, humankind has told tales of the fountain of youth. Has it been swimming in the ocean all along?

The Overview Deep Ecology

Smoke flows over a hand with a beige wall behind

Smoke flows over a hand with a beige wall behind

Gas Stoves Are Hazardous. Are Induction Stoves Better? Among the voices speaking out against gas stoves is a group worried about induction stove radiation. The Frontline investigates what the science says.

The Frontline Well Being

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era

Copenhagen Fashion Week Rewrites Fashion’s Villain Era This season, Copenhagen Fashion Week implemented minimum sustainability criteria that brands must adhere to in order to show their collections. But can regulation be enough?

Ethical Fashion

Carbon Removals: The Danger of Desperation

Carbon Removals: The Danger of Desperation

Carbon Removals: The Danger of Desperation Since the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year, more U.S. dollars are headed toward carbon removal technologies—but are they really a solution? For The Frontline, writer and researcher Nathan Thanki argues absolutely not.

The Frontline Climate Solutions

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