How a town tethered to coral learned to save its reef — and itself
10:45am By Jill LangloisOff the northeast coast of Brazil, the hot morning sun reflects off the sea’s surface as a…Historically redlined neighborhoods have twice the number of oil and gas wells
10:30am By Julia KaneNeighborhoods that were redlined have nearly twice as many oil and gas wells as neighborhoods that…EPA to investigate racial discrimination in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Tue 10:45am By Diana KruzmanThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is looking into complaints that Louisiana’s health and…Sierra snowpack worsens, falls to lowest level in 7 years
Tue 10:15am By Rachel BeckerSeven years ago, during the height of the last drought, California Governor Jerry Brown stood on the…Indigenous people are being killed to ‘protect’ a Congolese park
Apr 11, 2022, 10:45 am By Joseph LeeIn the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, park guards and Congolese…Indigenous people are being killed to ‘protect’ a Congolese park
Apr 11, 2022, 10:45 am By Joseph LeeIn the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, park guards and Congolese…As utility-scale renewables expand, some Midwest farmers are pushing back
Apr 11, 2022, 10:30 am By Diana KruzmanIn mid-March, about 80 people gathered in the auditorium of a local high school in Licking County,…Inside Just Stop Oil, the youth climate group blocking UK refineries
Apr 11, 2022, 10:15 am By Damien GayleThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of…A California water board assured the public that oil wastewater is safe for irrigation. Experts say evidence is flimsy.
Apr 9, 2022, 10:00 am By Liza GrossThis piece originally appeared at Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. After…The world’s most ambitious climate goal is essentially out of reach
Apr 8, 2022, 10:45 am By Shannon OsakaWhen the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the consortium of scientists responsible for…Scientists identify the missing ingredient for climate action: Political will
Apr 8, 2022, 10:30 am By Zoya TeirsteinWhen the world’s scientific community caught wind of a novel coronavirus circulating in Wuhan,…Methane emissions soar to highest level ever recorded
Apr 7, 2022, 9:59 pm By Kate YoderMethane emissions rose by a record amount last year, making the biggest jump since the National…Renewable energy can also boost the economy
Apr 7, 2022, 3:07 pm By Grist CreativeMoving away from fossil fuels and increasing the use of renewable energy from wind and solar is…True costs: How the oil industry cast climate policy as an economic burden
Apr 7, 2022, 10:45 am By Kate YoderOn February 22, 1989, Duane LeVine, Exxon’s manager of science and strategy, gave a presentation…As Russia attacks Ukraine, experts weigh European ‘renaissance’ for nuclear energy
Apr 7, 2022, 10:30 am By Joseph WintersAs European leaders condemn Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and unspeakable violence…Texas pledged access for non-English speakers to environmental documents and meetings. The rollout has been riddled with issues.
Apr 7, 2022, 10:15 am By Erin Douglas, The Texas TribuneThis piece originally appeared at The Texas Tribune. In the summer of 2018, dozens of residents in…The little-known open-source community behind the government’s new environmental justice tool
Apr 6, 2022, 11:57 am By Emily PontecorvoIn February, the White House published a beta version of its new environmental justice screening…The dangerous chemical oil refineries don’t want to quit
Apr 6, 2022, 10:30 am By Lucy SherriffHydrofluoric acid can form a deadly fog that can travel for miles. At refineries nationwide, a toxic…Land defenders face violence and repression. Clean energy could make it worse.
Apr 6, 2022, 10:15 am By Emily PontecorvoIn April of last year, José de Jesús Robledo Cruz and his wife Maria de Jesús Gomez Vega were…California offers $100 million for tribes to buy back their land. It won’t go far.
Apr 5, 2022, 10:45 am By Joseph LeeWhen he was 10 years old, Terry Supahan’s mom bought him a new bike. Supahan, a member of the…
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