To save the Amazon, what if we listened to those living within It?
Jul 7, 2024, 9:00 am By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
Beneath a setting sun, marchers clad in feathered headdresses and hand woven clothing streamed across the Alto Beni River bridge on a muggy June evening, calling out: “Agua si! Minería no!” “Viva Amazonia!” The march marked the opening of a…Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative
Jul 6, 2024, 9:00 am By Jessica McKenzie
In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the…Albuquerque made itself drought-proof. Then its dam started leaking.
Jul 5, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Mark Garcia can see that there’s no shortage of water in the Rio Grande this year. The river flows past his farm in central New Mexico, about 50 miles south of Albuquerque. The rush of springtime water is a welcome change after years of drought, but he knows…How America’s ‘most powerful lobby’ is stifling efforts to reform oil well cleanup in state after state
Jul 4, 2024, 9:00 am By Mark Olalde, ProPublica
Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to the more than 70,000 wells sitting unplugged across…No Parm, no problem: How modern chefs are veganizing the Caesar salad
Jul 3, 2024, 6:42 pm By Frida Garza
Every Fourth of July, Americans fire up the grill and gather to watch fireworks in celebration of the nation’s birthday, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But unbeknownst to many, the day is something of a dual holiday —…These TV shows are leaving emissions on the cutting room floor
Jul 3, 2024, 11:11 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “There’s our carbon footprint to think about, and then there’s also our cultural footprint — both of which are important, but this industry is uniquely positioned to have a large cultural footprint.” — Sam Read, executive director of the…The quick, quiet death of Biden’s natural gas export pause
Jul 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
When the Biden administration paused the approval of new liquefied natural gas exports in January, environmentalists and left-leaning politicians hailed the decision as a watershed moment for the climate movement. After months of pressure from climate…A Biden effort to conserve oceans is leaving out Indigenous peoples, report finds
Jul 3, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
President Biden’s administration wants to create the largest non-contiguous protected ocean area in the world, but a new paper says the effort is failing to take into account the rights and perspectives of the Indigenous peoples most affected by the…Biden admin unveils first-ever heat protections for workers. Here’s what to know.
Jul 2, 2024, 6:22 pm By Frida Garza
Just a few months before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the Biden administration appears to be accelerating its timeline to finalize a regulation that could protect 36 million workers from the harmful effects of exposure to extreme heat. On Tuesday, the…These Supreme Court decisions just made it harder to solve climate change
Jul 2, 2024, 12:05 pm By Akielly Hu
The Supreme Court on Monday weakened a law protecting federal regulations from lawsuits, granting the companies governed by those rules more time to challenge them. The move effectively eliminates any statute of limitations on rules issued by a wide range of…How to create a ‘world without waste’? Here are the plastic industry’s ideas.
Jul 2, 2024, 4:43 am By Joseph Winters
In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. That’s about 53,000 metric tons an hour, 1.3 million metric tons a day, or 460 million metric…Hurricane Beryl makes landfall, fueled by record-breaking ocean heat
Jul 1, 2024, 3:43 pm By Jake Bittle
The 2023 hurricane season was the fourth-most active since 1950, with 20 named storms forming and tearing across the Atlantic Ocean. The ocean’s water ran far hotter than usual for much of the summer, smashing through previous temperature records and fueling…The Biden administration is inching closer to a heat standard for workers — if the election doesn’t doom it
Jul 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
In the summer of 2011, Victor Ramirez was working in a Walmart warehouse in Mira Loma, California, when he suddenly fainted. When he came to, he was lying on the floor, confused about what had just happened, with his head aching terribly. While he didn’t…Controversial measure overturning oil well restrictions won’t be on California ballot
Jun 30, 2024, 9:00 am By Julie Cart, CalMatters
California’s oil industry says it is withdrawing its controversial ballot measure challenging a state law that would have imposed new restrictions on oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools. The oil industry, which spent $20 million…Flouting Biden pause, agency approves largest LNG terminal in US
Jun 29, 2024, 9:00 am By Pam Radtke, Floodlight
Despite a much publicized pause on the approval of liquefied natural gas terminals in the United States, a federal regulatory agency Thursday approved the construction of the nation’s largest LNG terminal, months before that pause is set to end. The 2-1 vote…The Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, gutting federal environmental protections
Jun 28, 2024, 12:37 pm By Jake Bittle
The Supreme Court on Friday threw into question the future of climate and environmental regulation in the United States, scrapping a decades-old legal precedent that gave federal agencies leeway to interpret laws according to their expertise and scientific…The Tule River Tribe of California recruits an old ally in its fight against wildfires: Beavers
Jun 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
After a decade of work, the Tule River Tribe has released nine beavers into the nation’s reservation in the foothills of California’s southern Sierra Nevada mountains. The beavers are expected to make the landscape more fire and drought resistant. Beaver…Scientists just got closer to solving a major Antarctic puzzle
Jun 28, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking that far back presents a foreboding peek into the future, as satellite records show that melting…How to survive a heat wave on a fixed income
Jun 28, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
Mone Choy is 68 and lives in the New York City neighborhood of Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, on a fixed disability income of $1,901 per month. Her rent is frozen at $1,928. She lives with chronic health issues that render her unable to work. In…Climate change got a question in the presidential debate. It didn’t get much of an answer.
Jun 28, 2024, 12:51 am By Joseph Winters
Over more than an hour and a half of back-and-forth, climate change got just a couple minutes of airtime during a CNN-hosted debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump on Thursday. It was the first time the men had faced each other on…
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