How did Central Appalachia become a target for repeated cycles of extraction and abandonment? How are communities using land ownership data not only to stop new extractive developments before they take hold, but also to break with the property regime that underpins them? And what can these struggles teach us about resisting extractivism elsewhere?

Is the UN climate process at a dead end? In April, 2026, ministers from 59 countries gathered alongside civil society stakeholders in Santa Marta, Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels—sidestepping the stalled UN framework in an attempt to rewrite the rules. Three of our Red Natural History Fellows were on the ground. Join them for a virtual roundtable on what happened — and what comes next.

This virtual event series offers tools, strategies, and perspectives to understand what is at stake in today’s struggles over life and land—and how we might enter these struggles from the other side.