Climate was not abstract; it was embedded in the rhythms of work. The water-guzzling sugarcane crop, around which the region's economy turns, surfaced repeatedly in both speech and song. It appeared ...

The year is 2043. Despite lip service to climate action, the fossil fuel industry continues to thrive. Shit’s bad. The rich continue to ignore it, isolated in air-conditioned Bubble communities and ...

Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai, second from right, performs with her team members at a village in Umerkot, a district of Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP ...

In the video for her new song, “World On Fire,” Dolly Parton sits atop a burning world. Blond hair piled and coiffed, her black dress glittering, she looks down into a pit of flames burning the earth.

A Reading choir performed at a government event in London earlier this month. Universal Voices, a community children’s choir based at the University of Reading’s Institute of Education, took part in a ...

Villagers hush when Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai starts singing about climate change, her clear voice rising above the simple squat dwellings. “We are the people of the south. The winds seem to ...

The iconic singer has a long history of taking seemingly "political" positions that say less about her convictions than about our own. Reading time 5 minutes This story was originally published by ...