10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands
Jan 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Alleen Brown
Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m happy I’m not locked up.” A member of the…Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak
Jan 28, 2025, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event, fueled hurricanes, and collapsed entire fisheries. The two years of heat have created a…Trump is just getting started. What are climate activists supposed to do?
Jan 27, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
The movement to demand action on climate change took a new turn on October 14, 2022, the day that a pair of activists in London’s National Gallery tossed tomato soup at the glass in front of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting. Most people…A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Jan 26, 2025, 9:00 am By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian
A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north. For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have…A UK energy company received $762M in ‘green loans’ despite years of pollution violations in the South
Jan 25, 2025, 9:00 am By Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today
Drax, the British owner of wood pellet plants in Mississippi and Louisiana that has paid millions in fines and settlements for violating state pollution laws in recent years, has received at least $762 million in “green” loans during that same period, an…What Trump’s executive action could do to offshore wind
Jan 24, 2025, 3:52 pm By Gautama Mehta
Offshore wind is a fledgling industry in the U.S. — one that, until this week, was poised for renewal after a slew of cancelled projects. The Biden administration had set a goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of projects by 2030 (approximately a 150-fold increase…As climate change supercharges disease, Trump pulls US from World Health Organization
Jan 24, 2025, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency tasked with protecting global public health. A day later, his…Gleaning: The ancient practice fighting modern food waste
Jan 24, 2025, 4:30 am By Natasha Khullar Relph
The three women in the painting stoop low in the field, their hands reaching for leftover stalks of wheat. Their bent figures dominate the foreground, emphasizing the physical toll of their labor. Jean-François Millet’s The Gleaners, painted in 1857,…California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Jan 24, 2025, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
One of the biggest myths about renewable energy is that it isn’t reliable. Sure, the sun sets every night and winds calm down, putting solar panels and turbines to sleep. But when those renewables are humming, they’re providing the grid with electricity…Trump leaving the Paris Agreement is ‘mostly symbolic.’ What does it actually mean?
Jan 23, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
The United States’ second exit from the Paris Agreement wasn’t unexpected. Even before he was reelected, now-president Donald Trump had promised for months that he would pull the country out of the United Nations pact to limit global warming: the Paris…What Trump can (and can’t) do to disrupt Los Angeles wildfire aid
Jan 23, 2025, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
During the heat of the presidential campaign in September, then-candidate Donald Trump made an extraordinary threat. He vowed that if California suffered a wildfire during his presidency, he’d withhold disaster aid from the state unless Governor Gavin Newsom…The US wants to cut food waste in half. We’re not even close.
Jan 22, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis from the University of California, Davis. In September 2015, the U.S. set an ambitious target of reducing its food loss and waste by 50 percent. The…The 8 talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action
Jan 21, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
To the extent that X ever was the “public square” of the internet, it is clearly no longer such a place. The platform — known as Twitter until it was rechristened in 2023 by Elon Musk — has become an echo chamber for extremist conspiracy theories and…Trump unravels US climate agenda as he promises to ‘drill, baby, drill’
Jan 20, 2025, 9:19 pm By Joseph Winters
Within hours of being sworn into office on Monday, President Donald Trump announced a spate of executive orders and policies to boost oil and gas production, roll back environmental protections, withdraw from the Paris climate accord, and undo environmental…What happens to kids when their schools are destroyed?
Jan 19, 2025, 9:00 am By Anna North, Vox
Kids lose so much when a disaster strikes. Too many have lost family members to the wildfires that have raged across Los Angeles in recent days. They’ve lost homes. They’ve lost the sense of security and predictability that so many kids depend on. And,…Global economy could shrink 50% between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Jan 18, 2025, 9:00 am By Sandra Laville
The global economy could face a 50 percent loss in gross domestic product between 2070 and 2090 from the catastrophic shocks of climate change unless immediate action by political leaders is taken to decarbonize and restore nature, according to a new report.…Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA’s is even worse.
Jan 17, 2025, 4:29 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Rachel Wald always has a bit of a cold. That’s life when you have two kids younger than 5, she says. You’re always a little sick. But it wasn’t until after Wald and her family voluntarily fled the fires in Los Angeles that she realized the cough, sore…Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA’s is even worse
Jan 17, 2025, 4:29 pm By Zoya TeirsteinRachel Wald always has a bit of a cold. That’s life when you have two kids younger than five, she said. You’re always a little sick. But it wasn’t until after Wald and her family voluntarily fled the fires in Los Angeles that she realized the cough, sore…Joe Biden was America’s first climate president. Did it matter?
Jan 17, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
When Joe Biden first became president, some found it hard to believe that he cared very much about climate change. With a global pandemic raging, the former vice president and longtime senator pitched his 2020 campaign as a return to normalcy and a referendum…Young conservatives want to push Trump on climate change — the ‘America-First’ way
Jan 17, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
For most environmentalists, the day that Donald Trump got elected president in November was “a dark day.” But there was one small, overlooked corner of the movement that celebrated. In a statement congratulating Trump on his victory, the leaders of the…
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Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
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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