Against the immense and unforgiving landscape of the High Plains, farmers and local politicians in places like Olton, Texas, fight to keep their towns alive against the decline of the […]

Originally envisioned by Mao Zedong himself, China’s South-North Water Transfer Project has consequences for those at both ends of the pipeline that show how supply issues aren’t as simple as […]

In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. “The Land of Many Palaces” follows a government official […]

When a drought ravages his rural Ethiopian homeland, young Ephraim and his pet ewe struggle to adjust to a displaced life amongst distant relatives. What was once cherished becomes forbidden, as his uncle prohibits him from doing […]

Winner of Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy! After making his name as an inexhaustible anti-fracking advocate, Josh Fox (Gasland) expands his reporting to a global scale, tracking responses to climate change across six continents. […]

With some of the world’s largest fracking operations on his territory, Caleb Behn, a young indigenous leader and lawyer in British Columbia, struggles to reconcile the teachings of his Dene tribe […]

In China’s Guangdong province, a mining tycoon has built an exact 1:1 replica of the idyllic Austrian village of Hallstatt. Beyond the gimmicky appeal of “copycat” development, this phenomenon offers a provocative perspective […]

A pro-coal activist joins forces with a veteran environmentalist to take on the massive coal company responsible for the death of her brother and 28 other workers in a fiery […]

Nuclear waste forces us to think about the distant future: the radioactive trail from our bombs and power plants will last 400 generations. Repeat: 400 generations! So we need a […]

At the height of the recession, a DC nonprofit struggles to implement an ambitious “green jobs” program that hires 150 unemployed residents to plant trees in underserved parks. With only […]