A new podcast asks: Are ‘radical’ climate activists really that radical?
May 20, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
In October 2022, two protesters with the group Just Stop Oil shocked the world by tossing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection…How the Washoe Tribe built a business to sustain a firewood bank that helps elders heat their homes
May 20, 2025, 4:30 am By Kaleb Roedel, KUNR
It’s a sun-splashed morning at the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California’s wood yard, a patch of land about the size of a football field, tucked in a valley about 20 miles east of Lake Tahoe’s south shore. Magpies, black-and-white birds with…Despite backlash, more states are considering laws to make Big Oil pay for climate change
May 19, 2025, 4:45 am By Akielly Hu
As climate disasters strain state budgets, a growing number of lawmakers want fossil fuel companies to pay for damages caused by their greenhouse gas emissions. Last May, Vermont became the first state to pass a climate Superfund law. The concept is modeled…Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature — as demand soars
May 18, 2025, 9:00 am By Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main
Charles Suppon has big plans for the Tunkhannock Area School District. At any given time, the northeastern Pennsylvania district’s chief operating officer can rattle off statistics about fields in which its schools excel: arts, AP classes, and softball,…Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’
May 17, 2025, 9:00 am By Terry L. Jones, Floodlight
Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave this country’s nearly 200 remaining coal-fired power plants until 2027 to install or improve air quality monitoring devices on smokestacks to meet federal guidelines to cut hazardous pollutants…If you want to claim the solar tax credit, install now
May 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Tik Root
For the last two decades, homeowners have been able to claim thousands of dollars in federal tax credits to help offset the high upfront costs of going solar. Things were supposed to stay that way through 2034. But, this week, the U.S. House of Representatives…Trump’s USDA tried to erase climate data. This lawsuit forced it back online.
May 15, 2025, 4:43 pm By Frida Garza
The United States Department of Agriculture says it will restore climate-related information on its websites, following a lawsuit filed earlier this year by agriculture and environmental groups that say farmers rely heavily on these critical resources to adapt…Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.
May 15, 2025, 4:45 am By Hillary Beaumont
It was the last night of February and a 4×4 truck vaulted down the 103-mile winter road to Cat Lake First Nation in northern Ontario, a road made entirely of ice and snow. Only the light of the stars and the red and white truck lights illuminated the dense,…After disasters, AmeriCorps was everywhere. What happens when it’s gone?
May 15, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
After devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January, a crew of more than 300 young people showed up to help, many of them members of the national service program AmeriCorps. Among them was Julian Nava-Cortez, who traveled from northern California to…Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts
May 14, 2025, 11:18 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “I just see this flattening of imagination. And that to me is the most terrifying thing. A lack of imagination leads to a lack of problem-solving, a lack of critical thinking. And that is what’s at risk here.” — Emily Graslie, creator of The…The government just killed an essential way to assess climate risk
May 14, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
Nearly 30 billion-dollar storms rocked the United States last year. Thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s disaster tracking database, we know that catastrophes are getting more expensive overall, and we’re seeing more of them…As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar
May 14, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
In the United States, farmers have access to federally subsidized crop insurance — a backstop that affords them some peace of mind in the face of extreme weather. When droughts, floods, or other natural disasters ruin a season’s harvest, farmers can rely…What Pope Leo means for global climate action and colonialism
May 14, 2025, 4:15 am By Anita Hofschneider
On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably…This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate
May 13, 2025, 4:45 am By Caroline Saunders
When the food company Blue Stripes first began developing recipes in 2018, its CEO and co-founder, Oded Brenner, whirled through the company’s kitchen, tasting everything. Blue Stripes makes snacks out of every part of the cacao fruit — not just the beans,…Georgia’s beloved shrimp industry grapples with disease and foreign imports
May 13, 2025, 4:15 am By Emily Jones
The tart saltwater odor of fresh-caught shrimp hangs thick in the air, stronger even than the earthier scent of marsh and mud, at Bubba Gumbo’s and BG Seafood, a dockside restaurant and seafood market on Tybee Island, Georgia. This is one of many restaurants…The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic
May 12, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Imagine you’re filling up 100 bags of coffee. You’re using beans from a few different providers — 10 percent of the beans they sent you are decaffeinated and the rest are caffeinated. However, you mixed them all together, so each bag is an even blend of…Sinkholes and the people who love them
May 12, 2025, 4:30 am By Katie Myers
Lauren Bacchus is one of many people in Asheville who are strangely enamored with the city’s sinkholes. She’s a member of the Asheville Sinkhole Group, an online watering hole of more than 3,400 people in and around this North Carolina city who eagerly…Deforestation and illegal evictions threaten Malaysia’s Indigenous peoples
May 12, 2025, 4:15 am By Anita Hofschneider
On October 20, 2022, Jeffery Nang, chief of the Rumah Jeffrey people in Malaysia, went to a community meeting and was handed a letter by a government official in Sarawak, a state on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. The letter was an eviction notice for Nang…FEMA is ending door-to-door canvassing in disaster areas
May 11, 2025, 9:00 am By Molly Taft, WIRED
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making significant changes to how it will respond to disasters on the ground this season, including ending federal door-to-door canvassing of survivors in disaster areas, Wired has learned. A memo reviewed by Wired,…Colorado’s rural electric co-ops are determined to go green
May 10, 2025, 9:00 am By Keaton Peters, High Country News
Eric Eriksen puts in long nights and weekends to keep the lights on in southern Colorado. As the CEO of the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Eriksen leads a member-owned nonprofit that provides electric service to more than 7,500 people across seven…
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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
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon - The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact
Wed 4:30am By Frida Garza
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