Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding
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A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the…The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess?
Dec 16, 2025, 9:45 am By Leia Larsen
Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium’s pollution up close. He’s seen the…How the Trump administration is fast-tracking logging in Illinois’ only national forest
Dec 16, 2025, 9:30 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern…How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
Dec 15, 2025, 9:40 pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary…What your cheap clothes cost the planet
Dec 15, 2025, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that…How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
Dec 15, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a…Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
Dec 15, 2025, 4:15 am By Sophie Hurwitz
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking…The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
Dec 14, 2025, 9:00 am By Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
The county health worker scanned the Omaha home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was…Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Dec 13, 2025, 9:00 am By Jimmy Tobias, High Country News
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the…A huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
Dec 12, 2025, 5:49 pm By Leia Larsen
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric…2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
Dec 12, 2025, 4:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate…How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
Dec 11, 2025, 4:45 am By Emily Cataneo
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The…The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
Dec 11, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn…When Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
Dec 10, 2025, 10:00 am By Grist Creative
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park,…The Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
Dec 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Miacel Spotted Elk
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a…Illinois families are going electric — for free
Dec 8, 2025, 4:45 am By Kari Lydersen
Jean Gay-Robinson said she “cried tears of joy” when utility ComEd switched all the…The Trump administration’s data center push could open the door for new forever chemicals
Dec 7, 2025, 9:00 am By Molly Taft, WIRED
In recent months, the Trump administration has opened a deregulatory floodgate in the name of…The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Dec 6, 2025, 9:00 am By Mark Olalde, ProPublica
Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20…After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work
Dec 5, 2025, 4:45 am By Anita Hofschneider
If there is one image that encapsulates COP30, this year’s global climate change conference in…Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales
Dec 4, 2025, 4:45 am By Oliver Milman, The Guardian
Zillow, the largest real estate listing site in the U.S., has removed a feature that allowed people…
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