Technofossils: How future archeologists will study our everyday objects
Mar 3, 2025, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Humans have been leaving their mark upon Earth for almost as long as we’ve existed. But over the last 70 years — little more than moments in the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens — the amount of stuff we’ve added to the planet has erupted in volume,…‘Like a virus’: Corruption has infected the fight against climate change
Mar 3, 2025, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Bribery, theft, conflicts of interest, and other forms of corruption are hampering global efforts to fight climate change and protect the environment. That’s according to a new study by Transparency International that reveals countries that experience high…Questions and confusion as Trump pauses key funding for shrinking Colorado River
Mar 2, 2025, 9:00 am By Alex Hager, KUNC
An executive order issued in the early days of the Trump administration hit pause on at least $4 billion set aside to protect the flow of the Colorado River. The funds from the Inflation Reduction Act were offered to protect the flow of the water supply for…Plan to build a road with radioactive waste in Florida prompts legal challenge against the EPA
Mar 1, 2025, 9:00 am By Amy Green, Inside Climate News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year. The Center for Biological Diversity filed the challenge on February 19 in the 11th U.S.…America’s avocado obsession is destroying Mexico’s forests. Is there a fix?
Feb 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Avocados are entrenched in American cuisine. The rich, creamy fruit, swaddled in a coarse skin, is often smashed into guacamole, slathered on toast, or minced into salads. The nation’s demand for Persea americana has surged by 600 percent since 1998. Most of…Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it.
Feb 28, 2025, 4:00 am By Frida Garza
In late January, the director of digital communications at the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent an email to staff instructing them to remove agency web pages related to climate change by the end of the following day. Peter Rhee, the communications head,…US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’
Feb 27, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina, WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region, and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. On a recent…Exporting natural gas raises your power bills. Trump is doing it anyway.
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
When former President Joe Biden paused the Department of Energy’s approval of new natural gas export projects last January — a move received positively by environmental advocates and scorned by fossil fuel companies — the LNG industry was in the midst of…One senator’s lonely quest to make the farm bill more sustainable
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
When Debbie Stabenow retired from Congress last year, she ended a 28-year run of advocating at the federal level for sustainable food systems. The Democrat from Michigan, who served four terms in the Senate after two terms in the House of Representatives, is…Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit
Feb 27, 2025, 4:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Two white men in their 60s live hundreds of miles away from each other, one in Arizona and the other in Washington state. They are the same age and have identical socioeconomic backgrounds. They also have similar habits and are in roughly the same physical…Trump’s EPA wants to demolish the bedrock of US climate regulation. It won’t be easy.
Feb 26, 2025, 5:19 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
2007 was a pivotal year for climate regulation in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, because they meet the Clean Air Act’s definition of air pollutants. That…Climate change is politically divisive. Public parks? Not so much.
Feb 26, 2025, 10:34 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight Two weeks ago, we wrote about the EXPLORE Act — an expansive piece of legislation aimed at expanding and improving outdoor access, which passed Congress unanimously in 2024. What the EXPLORE Act’s success seemed to show was that a love of…How the Eaton Fire destroyed a delicate truce over Altadena’s future
Feb 26, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Less than a month before the Eaton Fire engulfed Altadena, longtime residents thought they’d finally resolved a bruising debate over the California suburb’s future. For months they’d debated a Los Angeles County government plan poised to dramatically…The ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Svalbard just added thousands of climate-hardy crops
Feb 26, 2025, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors to a select few. Such infrequency is intentional. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves more than 1.3 million samples in what is the world’s most secure…Can solar power avoid Trump’s culture wars?
Feb 25, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Seamus Fitzgerald hears a lot of opinions about solar power. As the associate director of real estate at OneEnergy Renewables, a solar energy developer, he approaches farmers and other landowners across the Midwest with proposals to lease their properties for…‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after floods
Feb 25, 2025, 4:30 am By Katie Myers
When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide swath of the region for the second time in as many years, Cara Ellis set to work. One week later, she’s hardly let up. Ellis has spent countless hours helping…What climate change means for bird flu — and the soaring price of eggs
Feb 24, 2025, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
Buying eggs at the grocery store has become a major headache for U.S. consumers, with the average price of a dozen large eggs in a typical American city reaching $4.95 last month. Since the start of 2020, the cost of eggs has increased by nearly 240 percent,…How do you survive the end of the world? Oscar-nominated ‘Flow’ offers an answer—through the eyes of a cat
Feb 24, 2025, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Virtually anywhere on Earth, disaster is just a random collision of weather patterns away from your doorstep. A hurricane could tear off your roof, a wildfire might burn through your neighborhood, or a storm could flood your town, sweeping away cars,…Why some Starbucks locations are switching from plastic to paper cups
Feb 24, 2025, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a surprise: Their beloved Frappuccinos and iced espresso drinks served in paper cups, not plastic. The Seattle-based coffee company announced this week that…The fossil fuel industry is trying to keep buildings hooked on gas. Here’s how.
Feb 24, 2025, 4:00 am By Akielly Hu
Fossil fuel industries in the United States, European Union, and Australia are leading parallel campaigns to block policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. That’s according to a new report by the London-based think tank InfluenceMap,…
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Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
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