As lawmakers consider climate bill, devastating floods hit central US
Jul 29, 2022, 9:25 pm By Diana KruzmanFlooding in Missouri and Kentucky this week swept away homes, washed out bridges, and killed at…Here’s what’s in the Senate’s $369 billion for climate and energy
Jul 29, 2022, 10:45 am By Julia Kane
It’s been a dangerously hot, rainy, fiery summer in the United States. But there’s a glimmer of…Biden’s under-the-radar executive moves would make solar cheaper for low-income renters
Jul 29, 2022, 10:30 am By Lina TranWith his landmark climate bill seemingly dead in the Senate, President Joe Biden had been facing…Is accepting the end of humanity the key to climate action? This scholar thinks so
Jul 29, 2022, 10:15 am By Diana Kruzman
There’s a part at the end of “Don’t Look Up,” last year’s wildly popular Netflix film…Manchin, Dems reach deal on climate legislation
Jul 27, 2022, 11:54 pm By Diana KruzmanDemocratic leaders have reached an agreement with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia on a package…Drake’s private jet shows the climate impact of the influencer economy
Jul 27, 2022, 5:25 pm By Eve Andrews
Private jet travel is known to come with a hefty carbon footprint per mile, but even mildly…Texas is skirting federal environmental law to push for highway expansion
Jul 27, 2022, 10:45 am By Megan Kimble
After college, Michael Moritz got a job in Houston analyzing fatal car crashes. Moritz, a…Chicago made its Southeast Side a polluter’s haven, violating civil rights
Jul 27, 2022, 10:30 am By Diana Kruzman
A decision by the city of Chicago to relocate a scrapyard from an affluent white neighborhood to a…Indigenous leaders say Africa’s conservation plan puts lives at risk
Jul 27, 2022, 10:15 am By Joseph LeeLast week, leaders from more than fifty African countries convened for the first Africa Protected…Forest Service announces emergency plan to save giant sequoias
Jul 26, 2022, 10:15 am By Julia KaneThe U.S. Forest Service will fast-track efforts to protect giant sequoias from wildfires, the agency…Houston investigated for slow 311 response to Black & Hispanic residents
Jul 26, 2022, 10:00 am By Ramon Antonio VargasThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of…Pennsylvania just lost a key tool to address its abandoned oil well problem
Jul 25, 2022, 10:45 am By Naveena SadasivamAn estimated 200,000 abandoned oil and gas wells pockmark Pennsylvania’s Appalachian plateaus and…Study: Tomatoes grown in lead-contaminated soil appear safe to eat
Jul 25, 2022, 10:30 am By Chad SmallFor city dwellers, growing your own fruits and vegetables can be a tricky venture. A terrace or…Experts to Congress: Restore EPA enforcement staffing and funding for environmental justice
Jul 22, 2022, 10:30 am By Julia Kane
For the past three years, the Valero Houston Refinery hasn’t gone a single quarter without…UK is no longer a cold country and must adapt to heat, say climate scientists
Jul 22, 2022, 10:00 am By Helena Horton
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The search for the source of plastic pollution
Jul 21, 2022, 10:30 am By Samantha Wohlfeil, InvestigateWest
This story was published in partnership with InvestigateWest. On an overcast Saturday in Seattle, a…Record-breaking heat in Europe spurs dangerous air pollution
Jul 21, 2022, 10:15 am By Lina TranOn Wednesday morning, the punishing heatwave that has roiled western Europe over the last week…Biden calls climate change an ‘emergency,’ but stops short of declaring it
Jul 20, 2022, 9:23 pm By Zoya TeirsteinLast week, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the upper chamber’s main swing vote, dashed…Extreme rainfall will be worse and more frequent than we thought, according to new studies
Jul 20, 2022, 10:45 am By Zoya TeirsteinJoshua Studholme was finishing his doctoral program in physics and math at Lomonosov Moscow State…A Native Corporation wants to mine gold on the Kuskokwim River. Alaska Natives say no.
Jul 20, 2022, 10:30 am By Joseph Lee
Tucked against a bend of the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska sits the city of Bethel. Home to…
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