Questions and confusion as Trump pauses key funding for shrinking Colorado River
Mar 2, 2025, 9:00 am By Alex Hager, KUNC
An executive order issued in the early days of the Trump administration hit pause on at least $4…Plan to build a road with radioactive waste in Florida prompts legal challenge against the EPA
Mar 1, 2025, 9:00 am By Amy Green, Inside Climate News
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial…America’s avocado obsession is destroying Mexico’s forests. Is there a fix?
Feb 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Avocados are entrenched in American cuisine. The rich, creamy fruit, swaddled in a coarse skin, is…Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it.
Feb 28, 2025, 4:00 am By Frida Garza
In late January, the director of digital communications at the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent…US Forest Service firings decimate already understaffed agency: ‘It’s catastrophic’
Feb 27, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, BPR, a public radio station…Exporting natural gas raises your power bills. Trump is doing it anyway.
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
When former President Joe Biden paused the Department of Energy’s approval of new natural gas…One senator’s lonely quest to make the farm bill more sustainable
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
When Debbie Stabenow retired from Congress last year, she ended a 28-year run of advocating at the…Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit
Feb 27, 2025, 4:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Two white men in their 60s live hundreds of miles away from each other, one in Arizona and the other…Trump’s EPA wants to demolish the bedrock of US climate regulation. It won’t be easy.
Feb 26, 2025, 5:19 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
2007 was a pivotal year for climate regulation in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled that…Climate change is politically divisive. Public parks? Not so much.
Feb 26, 2025, 10:34 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight Two weeks ago, we wrote about the EXPLORE Act — an expansive piece of legislation…How the Eaton Fire destroyed a delicate truce over Altadena’s future
Feb 26, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Less than a month before the Eaton Fire engulfed Altadena, longtime residents thought they’d…The ‘doomsday’ seed vault in Svalbard just added thousands of climate-hardy crops
Feb 26, 2025, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Three times a year, a fortress within the remote mountainside of a Norwegian island opens its doors…Can solar power avoid Trump’s culture wars?
Feb 25, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Seamus Fitzgerald hears a lot of opinions about solar power. As the associate director of real…‘We know what it’s like’: How Appalachian towns are learning to help each other after floods
Feb 25, 2025, 4:30 am By Katie Myers
When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide…What climate change means for bird flu — and the soaring price of eggs
Feb 24, 2025, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
Buying eggs at the grocery store has become a major headache for U.S. consumers, with the average…How do you survive the end of the world? Oscar-nominated ‘Flow’ offers an answer—through the eyes of a cat
Feb 24, 2025, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Virtually anywhere on Earth, disaster is just a random collision of weather patterns away from your…Why some Starbucks locations are switching from plastic to paper cups
Feb 24, 2025, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Starbucks customers across hundreds of locations in the United States started their weeks off with a…The fossil fuel industry is trying to keep buildings hooked on gas. Here’s how.
Feb 24, 2025, 4:00 am By Akielly Hu
Fossil fuel industries in the United States, European Union, and Australia are leading parallel…Rural New England needs EV chargers for tourism. The Trump administration is making it harder to build them.
Feb 23, 2025, 9:00 am By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder
When Charyl Reardon needs to charge her electric vehicle quickly, she has to leave her home in New…A Project 2025 advisor takes the reins at EPA Region 6
Feb 22, 2025, 9:00 am By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
Scott Mason IV will lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s region covering some of the…
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