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It’s time to create the National Institutes of Energy Innovation. This year has been a tragic reminder that we need to do a better job of preparing for global threats.

In many major metropolitan areas across the United States, there are far more vacant homes than people experiencing homelessness. This is true in New York City, it’s true in the Bay Area, and as our new report shows, it’s true in Los Angeles. Here, there are 93,000 vacant homes compared to just over 41,000 unhoused people. Our report, the product of a collaboration between UCLA School of Law and the community-based nonprofits Strategic Actions for a Just Economy and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, is perhaps the most detailed look yet at the characteristics of residential vacancies situated in the broader speculative housing market in any city in the United States.

Bill Gates is helping develop a coronavirus vaccine amid dark Covid-19 conspiracy theories.

Today in Foreign Affairs, I made the case that an effective response to COVID-19 must consider the needs of women and girls. Equality can’t wait—especially when it will help us end this pandemic and build a more resilient future.

A basic income could replace income support programs like welfare with money everyone would receive, but the support would gradually be reduced as a person’s income…

As the slogan goes, "Stonewall was a riot"—but what kind of riot? What the queer uprisings of 1969 share with the George Floyd protests of 2020.

The province's COVID-related suspension of environmental rules is undercutting protection against oil and gas and mining projects, including in overwhelmed First Nations communities

"I think it's important we continue dancing not only for mental health, but for the healing prayers."

In January we launched Microsoft’s carbon initiative, setting new goals for our company to become carbon negative by the end of this decade. While COVID-19 has upended daily life for almost all of us since then, sustainability issues have become no less urgent or important. That’s why today we’re announcing the second step in our...

“At this point I will give the benefit of the doubt to the government… but we will be watching very closely,” said Ontario NDP environment critic Ian Arthur.

Black lives are being sacrificed in the name of (white) public health, whether through disproportionate exposure to COVID-19 or policing of the people least able to stay home.

Well-publicized philanthropy shows how afraid the super-rich are of a larger social safety net – and higher taxes

Chomsky slams US’s handling of virus as he warns nuclear war, global warming threats will remain after pandemic is over. While the coronavirus can have…

Chomsky told that authoritarianism or a change of liberal capitalism are two options left for the world after coronavirus, he called Trump a sociopathic buffoon

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.

The long read: Times of upheaval are always times of radical change. Some believe the pandemic is a once-in-a-generation chance to remake society and build a better future. Others fear it may only make existing injustices worse

Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host – but we also need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production

Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea.

The administration is pushing its pro-polluter agenda as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 rises.

Billionaire Bill Gates just called for a complete and utter shutdown and quarantining of the entire nation, saying the spottiness of some states doing it and some states not has put all in coronavirus jeopardy. This — from the guy who’s poised to make some cool millions on coronavirus-related market matters.

Deforestation, loss of biodiversity and expansion of large-scale industrial development are related to pandemics, Indigenous leaders say.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about how the Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s policy proposals are especially apt amid the current coronavirus crisis.

As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics

A debt crisis was inevitable, but covid-19 has made it immediate.

A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways, for better or worse. Here are 34 big thinkers’ predictions for what’s to come.

A new poll finds that Biden’s approval rating is 61 percent, the highest rating a president has received since 2009.