The selective accounting behind the plastic industry’s climate-friendly claims
Oct 20, 2022, 10:30 am By Joseph Winters
As the plastics industry ramps up production, plastic pollution continues to accumulate in the…How a Utah utility is helping an Estonian oil company hoard Colorado River water
Oct 19, 2022, 10:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Millions of years before dinosaurs went extinct, what is now Utah was submerged by a broad, shallow…EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Oct 19, 2022, 10:30 am By Lisa Song
This story was reported in collaboration with ProPublica. Louisiana must examine how polluters…Starved of new talent: Young people are steering clear of oil jobs
Oct 18, 2022, 10:45 am By Kate Yoder
In late May, António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, stood in blue…Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts.
Oct 18, 2022, 10:30 am By Blanca Begert
This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled…The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought?
Oct 18, 2022, 10:15 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Reports of low water levels at a few big hydropower plants in the West over the last few years have…Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet
Oct 17, 2022, 10:45 am By Kate YoderIf you’re feeling anxious about climate change, the common wisdom goes, there’s an antidote:…All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too
Oct 17, 2022, 10:30 am By Joseph Winters
When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “garbage patches” swirling with…Will offshore wind bring ‘good-paying, union jobs’? Texas workers aren’t so sure.
Oct 14, 2022, 10:45 am By Emily PontecorvoThe Biden administration is gearing up to turn the Gulf of Mexico, long a hub for offshore oil and…‘A moral responsibility’: Scotland calls for climate reparations ahead of COP27
Oct 14, 2022, 10:30 am By Naveena SadasivamThe scale of devastation that unprecedented flooding brought to Pakistan this summer is hard to…Abandoned Texas oil wells are blowing out. The state won’t fix them.
Oct 13, 2022, 11:30 am By Amal Ahmed
This story is produced by Floodlight, a nonprofit news site that investigates climate issues. Sign…Inside the industry push to label your yogurt cup ‘recyclable’
Oct 13, 2022, 10:45 am By Joseph Winters
Plastic recycling labels are everywhere: The ubiquitous “chasing arrows” symbol adorns…Report: Extreme heat will hit urban poor the hardest, worsening inequality
Oct 13, 2022, 10:30 am By Brett MarshExtreme heat kills more people globally than any other climate-change related hazard, and will…Hurricane Julia leaves a path of destruction through Central America
Oct 13, 2022, 10:15 am By Zoya TeirsteinThe fifth Atlantic hurricane of the year made landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm on Sunday.…UN: Conservation shouldn’t cost Indigenous lives
Oct 13, 2022, 10:00 am By Joseph LeeTo conserve the planet’s biodiversity, countries around the world have pushed to create protected…UN countries adopt ‘aspirational’ net-zero goal for aviation
Oct 12, 2022, 10:45 am By Jake BittleNearly 200 countries pledged to cut carbon emissions from commercial aviation on Friday, marking the…Phoenix could see deadliest year for heat deaths after sweltering summer
Oct 12, 2022, 10:15 am By Nina LakhaniThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of…Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not
10:45am By Naveena Sadasivam
Sumi Akter was at a crossroads. She could either stay in her farming village in western Bangladesh…Report: World Bank invested nearly $15 billion in fossil fuel projects despite climate commitment
10:15am By Jessie Blaeser
In December 2018, the World Bank made a public commitment: The international financial institution,…West Virginia, Kentucky officials ignored plans for catastrophic floods
Mon 10:15am By Alexa Beyer, Mountain State Spotlight
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