Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
Aug 29, 2024, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
The wheels on this bus do indeed go round and round. Its wipers swish. And its horn beeps. Hidden in its innards, though, is something special — a motor that doesn’t vroom but pairs with a burgeoning technology that could help the grid proliferate with…As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem
Aug 29, 2024, 4:00 am By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state prison about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Outside, temperatures hovered in the 90s, with a heat index — what the temperature…Methane leaks are a climate problem. These satellites could help find them.
Aug 28, 2024, 10:59 am By Syris Valentine
The vision “It doesn’t matter how many thermographers we have, boots on the ground, satellites flying in the air, people with drones and airplanes and all the other technology, none of it matters if you don’t stop methane. None of it counts.” —…The forgotten fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Aug 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Scott W. Stern
Nicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a time when electric trucks were a common sight on the streets of Oakland. In fact, just a couple decades before his birth, both electric and steam-powered vehicles…Lessons from Houston’s Katrina response
Aug 27, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake Bittle
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to be talking about the lasting political impact of one of the worst natural disasters in American history. When we talk about the impacts of climate change in…Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
Aug 27, 2024, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
Last October, Georgia Power approached regulators with what it said was a crisis. Unless they did something soon, they discovered, the growing demand for electricity would outpace production sometime in the winter of 2025. Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp and…They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
Aug 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
By the time Mtangulizi Sanyika got to Houston in September 2005, he and his wife were tired of moving. Sanyika, a lifelong resident of New Orleans and a professor at a historically Black college in the city, had spent weeks jumping from town to town after…Scientists want to build a ‘doomsday’ vault on the moon
Aug 27, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
In the fall of 2016, soaring temperatures caused the permafrost encasing a remote Norwegian mountainside to thaw. An ensuing flood breached the entrance tunnel of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built into the mountain as a fortress to safeguard the world’s…Thawing Alaskan permafrost is unleashing more mercury, confirming worst fears of scientists
Aug 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
Alaska’s permafrost is melting and revealing high levels of mercury that could threaten Alaska Native peoples. That’s according to a new study released earlier this month by the University of Southern California, analyzing sediment from melted permafrost…The right to repair electronics is now law in 3 states. Is Big Tech complying?
Aug 26, 2024, 4:15 am By Maddie Stone
If you’re considering purchasing a new gadget — whether that’s a laptop, a video game console, or a digital camera — you might expect to have access to whatever repair manuals or spare parts the manufacturer produces. But until recently, companies…Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites
Aug 25, 2024, 9:00 am By B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster
A company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington has paused permitting activities on the project amid concerns about impacts to Indigenous cultural sites. The decision comes on the heels of an investigation…Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen?
Aug 24, 2024, 9:00 am By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
Imagine oil workers appearing in your backyard and drilling without warning. Think of constant noise, noxious odors, and routine spills that contaminate your air and water. Then consider all this lasting for decades, with no end in sight and the wealth from…Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’
Aug 23, 2024, 5:35 pm By Lylla Younes
Earlier this week, in a culmination of a decade-long fight, James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump, decided to block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions…What climate policies work best? A new study has answers.
Aug 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
Following the release of a major climate report last year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the “climate time-bomb” was ticking. Standing behind a podium emblazoned with the United Nations symbol of a globe encircled by olive branches,…Mississippi officials saw the Jackson water crisis coming — and did nothing
Aug 23, 2024, 4:00 am By Lylla Younes
In the summer of 2015, officials in Jackson, Mississippi sent the state a series of water samples taken at different locations throughout the city’s public water system. Residents had complained for weeks about the low pressure in their taps, and the city…An invisible, toxic chemical has been poisoning residents in Puerto Rico for decades
Aug 22, 2024, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
Henry Morales woke up in the emergency room in Salinas, Puerto Rico, not knowing where he was. A doctor appeared beside him and gestured toward a dark-haired woman with a worried expression. “Do you know who this is?” he asked. Morales blinked, but…Why Puerto Rico remains a tax haven for polluters
Aug 22, 2024, 4:44 am By Joaquín A. Rosado Lebrón
Puerto Rico has more medical sterilization facilities per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. and its territories. These plants, where hospital equipment is fumigated before being introduced to the market, comprise a small but essential industry, one that…Why the EPA is relying on unproven technology to stop cancer-causing emissions
Aug 22, 2024, 4:43 am By Naveena Sadasivam
In the late 1980s, the aptly named Package Products Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, was facing a toxic problem. The consumer packaging company printed eye-catching candy wrappers, soft-drink shrink wrap, and other materials doused with colorful inks. But…This simple farming technique can capture carbon for thousands of years
Aug 22, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from his crops, and the shrub takes up valuable room for…Colorado is trying to prevent people from putting plastic forks in their compost
Aug 21, 2024, 5:54 pm By Joseph Winters
When A1 Organics announced last year that it would stop accepting pizza boxes, cutlery, and other certified-compostable foodware from the residents of Denver, some took to Reddit to express their discontent. “Damn,” one user wrote. “I was looking forward…
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Sun 9:00am By Dylan Baddour & Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News - New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
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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
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