Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
Aug 29, 2024, 4:15 am By Matt SimonThe wheels on this bus do indeed go round and round. Its wipers swish. And its horn beeps. Hidden in…As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem
Aug 29, 2024, 4:00 am By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The AppealOn June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center,…Methane leaks are a climate problem. These satellites could help find them.
Aug 28, 2024, 10:59 am By Syris ValentineThe vision “It doesn’t matter how many thermographers we have, boots on the ground, satellites…The forgotten fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Aug 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Scott W. SternNicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a…Lessons from Houston’s Katrina response
Aug 27, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake BittleHello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going…Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
Aug 27, 2024, 4:45 am By Emily JonesLast October, Georgia Power approached regulators with what it said was a crisis. Unless they did…They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
Aug 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake BittleBy the time Mtangulizi Sanyika got to Houston in September 2005, he and his wife were tired of…Scientists want to build a ‘doomsday’ vault on the moon
Aug 27, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-MullerIn the fall of 2016, soaring temperatures caused the permafrost encasing a remote Norwegian…Thawing Alaskan permafrost is unleashing more mercury, confirming worst fears of scientists
Aug 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita HofschneiderAlaska’s permafrost is melting and revealing high levels of mercury that could threaten Alaska…The right to repair electronics is now law in 3 states. Is Big Tech complying?
Aug 26, 2024, 4:15 am By Maddie StoneIf you’re considering purchasing a new gadget — whether that’s a laptop, a video game console,…Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites
Aug 25, 2024, 9:00 am By B. ‘Toastie’ OasterA company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington…Ecuador voted to keep oil in the ground. Will it happen?
Aug 24, 2024, 9:00 am By Katie Surma, Inside Climate NewsImagine oil workers appearing in your backyard and drilling without warning. Think of constant…Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’
Aug 23, 2024, 5:35 pm By Lylla YounesEarlier this week, in a culmination of a decade-long fight, James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana…What climate policies work best? A new study has answers.
Aug 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate YoderFollowing the release of a major climate report last year, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres…Mississippi officials saw the Jackson water crisis coming — and did nothing
Aug 23, 2024, 4:00 am By Lylla YounesIn the summer of 2015, officials in Jackson, Mississippi sent the state a series of water samples…An invisible, toxic chemical has been poisoning residents in Puerto Rico for decades
Aug 22, 2024, 4:45 am By Lylla YounesHenry Morales woke up in the emergency room in Salinas, Puerto Rico, not knowing where he was. A…Why Puerto Rico remains a tax haven for polluters
Aug 22, 2024, 4:44 am By Joaquín A. Rosado LebrónPuerto Rico has more medical sterilization facilities per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. and…Why the EPA is relying on unproven technology to stop cancer-causing emissions
Aug 22, 2024, 4:43 am By Naveena SadasivamIn the late 1980s, the aptly named Package Products Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, was facing…This simple farming technique can capture carbon for thousands of years
Aug 22, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt SimonSimon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an…Colorado is trying to prevent people from putting plastic forks in their compost
Aug 21, 2024, 5:54 pm By Joseph WintersWhen A1 Organics announced last year that it would stop accepting pizza boxes, cutlery, and other…
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