Does the plastics industry support waste pickers? It’s complicated.
Jul 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Around the world, an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic, aluminum, and other refuse from dumpsites and landfills and selling it to recyclers. They’re called “waste pickers,” and though their work is essential —…Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
Jul 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Jennie Durant
For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields of purple delphinium and columbine, an iconic image of…How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change
Jul 30, 2024, 4:10 am By Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report
At the end of a semester that presaged one of the hottest summers on record, the students in associate professor Michael Sheridan’s business class were pitching proposals to cut waste and emissions on their campus and help turn it into a vehicle for fighting…Critics of congestion pricing often end up supporting it. Here’s why.
Jul 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Akielly Hu
New York City’s plan to charge most vehicles $15 to enter downtown Manhattan would have eased traffic, cut pollution, and raised billions for mass transit. But Governor Kathy Hochul — in an 11th-hour reversal — placed congestion pricing on hold…As US bets big on hydrogen for clean energy, local communities worry about secrecy and public health
Jul 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Molly Peterson
Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the country — regional nerve centers for a potentially clean fuel that could someday rival solar and wind and cut carbon from the atmosphere. Last week,…One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why.
Jul 29, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
One in 11 people worldwide went hungry last year, while one in three struggled to afford a healthy diet. These numbers underscore the fact that governments not only have little shot at achieving a goal, set in 2015, of eradicating hunger, but progress toward…This little-known agency has billions to make federal buildings green
Jul 28, 2024, 9:00 am By Alison F. Takemura, Canary Media
An under-the-radar U.S. agency is pushing efforts to slash emissions from buildings, marshaling billions of dollars to test and deploy new carbon-cutting technologies and materials at properties owned by the federal government. The U.S. General Services…As the Rio Grande runs dry, South Texas cities look to alternatives for water
Jul 27, 2024, 9:00 am By Berenice Garcia, The Texas TribuneThe Rio Grande is no longer a reliable source of water for South Texas. That’s the sobering conclusion Rio Grande Valley officials are facing as water levels at the international reservoirs that feed into the river remain dangerously low — and a hurricane…Can Florida’s orange growers survive another hurricane season?
Jul 26, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Oranges are synonymous with Florida. The zesty fruit can be spotted adorning everything from license plates to kitschy memorabilia. Ask any Floridian and they’ll tell you that the crop is a hallmark of the Sunshine State. Jay Clark would be quick to agree.…The green transition will make things worse for the Indigenous world
Jul 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The green transition will deepen entrenched socioeconomic barriers for Indigenous peoples — unless Western forms of science and ongoing settler colonialism are addressed by researchers. That’s according to a new study out this month focused on the use, and…Wind turbines rarely fail. So why did Vineyard Wind’s fall apart?
Jul 25, 2024, 12:57 pm By Syris Valentine
A preliminary analysis of the Vineyard Wind turbine that failed has found that, although the fundamental design of the machine’s 351-foot blades is sound, a manufacturing flaw caused one of them to snap as it spun over the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month.…Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way
Jul 25, 2024, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
Just a few years ago, the alternative protein industry promised to revolutionize the way people eat burgers: They would still sizzle and bleed, they’d taste great, but they wouldn’t actually contain any meat. Today it seems that, if that revolution is…Meet the scientists behind the ice sanctuary — a memory vault for dying glaciers
Jul 24, 2024, 11:20 am By Syris Valentine
The vision “When you lose it, you’ve lost a record of climate on Earth that can never be recovered. There’s a lot of scientists who realize this, and have realized it for decades, who are making heroic efforts to recover this ice before it disappears…How Israel’s war on Gaza unraveled a landmark Mideast climate deal
Jul 24, 2024, 4:45 am By Saqib Rahim
Just weeks before the international climate summit in Dubai, one of the biggest climate agreements ever proposed between Middle Eastern countries unraveled. For two years, Israel and Jordan had negotiated a trade of precious resources they’ll need in a…‘Roadspreading’ returns: How Pennsylvania’s oil industry quietly dumped waste across the state
Jul 24, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bolster
Siri Lawson and her husband live on a stamp of wooded, hilly land in Warren County, Pennsylvania, nestled in the state’s rural northwest corner. During the summer heat, cars traveling on the county’s dirt roads cast plumes of dust in their wake. Winter’s…What defines a heat wave? The answer could decide where disaster dollars go.
Jul 24, 2024, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Another brutal summer is shattering temperature records, broiling over a third of Americans under extended heat advisories. As smoke from wildfires begins to choke skies and death counts tick upwards, affected states say they need more help from the federal…Earth just sweltered through the hottest day ever recorded
Jul 23, 2024, 8:39 pm By Matt SimonSunday was an unprecedented day, and not just because President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race so close to the election. July 21 was the hottest day on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, with a global average…Inside a new experiment to find the climate-proof coffee of the future
Jul 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Jonathan W. Rosen
David Ngibuini is a second-generation coffee farmer in Kenya’s central highlands, an area of cool temperatures and rich volcanic soil that’s long been one of the best places to grow coffee on Earth. On an afternoon in May, after a couple of months of rain,…‘Wood vaulting’: A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of
Jul 23, 2024, 4:15 am By Kylie Mohr
In northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley, a pile of about 100 small logs, 10 feet long or so, sits neatly stacked, ringed by berry bushes, a few white wildflowers, and towering larch trees. Surrounding the logs are several acres of U.S. Forest Service land,…In Georgia, companies want to cut emissions. Utilities are holding them back.
Jul 22, 2024, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
With much fanfare and celebration, Georgia Power, the state’s largest electricity provider, just marked a major milestone: Two new nuclear reactors near Augusta are now generating enough energy to power a million homes, without using fossil fuels or emitting…
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Mon 4:30am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy - Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas
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
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
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