A lack of data hampers efforts to fix racial disparities in utility cutoffs
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Each year, nearly 1.3 million households across the country have their electricity shut off because they cannot pay their bill. Beyond risking the health, or even lives, of those who need that energy to power medical devices and inconveniencing people in…Heat waves are making restaurant kitchens unsafe. Workers are fighting back.
Jun 10, 2024, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
Last month, Oscar Hernández couldn’t sleep. The cook, who worked at a restaurant located inside of a Las Vegas casino, had found that after coming home from his shifts, his body would not properly cool down. The air conditioning at work had been broken…How forecasts of bad weather can drive up your grocery bill
Jun 10, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
It’s no secret that a warming world will drive food prices higher, a phenomenon increasingly known as “heatflation.” What’s less known, but a growing area of interest among economists and scientists alike, is the role individual extreme weather events…Virginia has the biggest data center market in the world. Can it also decarbonize its grid?
Jun 9, 2024, 9:00 am By Sarah Vogelsong, Inside Climate News
While short-lived, the denial came as a surprise. This March, Loudoun County, a suburb of Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia that is home to the greatest concentration of data centers in the world, made an unexpected move: It rejected a proposal to let a…Cattle are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Hawaiian seaweed could change that.
Jun 8, 2024, 9:00 am By Thomas Heaton, Honolulu Civil Beat
Limu kohu is most traditionally destined for poke bowls, but the distinctive-tasting seaweed is now increasingly in demand for cattle to reduce the amount of methane they burp into the atmosphere. Parker Ranch cattle are among the first of Hawai’i’s…Why a new method of growing food on Mars matters more on Earth
Jun 7, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
The first thing Brazilian astrobiologist Rebeca Gonçalves remembers learning as a child was the order of the planets. Her uncle, an astrophysicist, also taught her all about the constellations dotting the night skies over São Paulo. “Ever since I was…A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible
Jun 7, 2024, 4:30 am By Gautama Mehta
For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America’s iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in Fort Valley, a town of 9,000 people surrounded by peach and pecan orchards in central Georgia. Carolyn Allen has worked at Blue Bird…A new satellite could help solve one of our climate’s biggest mysteries: Clouds
Jun 7, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
Despite the fact that clouds envelop two-thirds of the planet at any given time, transport water on the wind, and shield the Earth from the sun, surprisingly little is known about how climate change affects them. Atmospheric scientists are not yet certain, for…A rare celebration of Indigenous Pacific cultures underscores the cost of climate change
Jun 7, 2024, 4:00 am By Anita Hofschneider
More than 2,000 people are gathering in Hawaiʻi this week and next for the 13th Festival of Pacific Island Arts and Culture. It’s the largest gathering of Indigenous Pacific peoples in the world. And it comes at a critical time for the island region known…Illinois legislature puts the brakes on a carbon capture boom
Jun 7, 2024, 3:45 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
The Midwest’s largest potential reservoir to store carbon is buried deep under the farmland of Illinois, and the state’s lawmakers just hit the brakes on any plans for a carbon capture and storage boom there.A controversial technology where carbon dioxide…As the climate changes, many species are teetering on extinction. How much should we intervene?
Jun 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Lois Parshley
In the first flush of an Arctic spring,the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging from a silvered quiet. Icicles shatter like glass. Meltwater babbles, braiding in puddles and then in deltas. Snow drops in clumps from the branches of black spruce. Saplings…The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat
Jun 6, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
Predicting the future has always been a difficult, sometimes fruitless task, but scientists are surprisingly good at divining how hot the year ahead will be. For decades, their models have largely ended up matching global temperatures. Then 2023 came along. At…What’s behind the record outbreak of spongy moths in the eastern US?
Jun 6, 2024, 4:15 am By Zoya Teirstein
Take a few steps into a leafy forest in New York’s Hudson Valley, close your eyes, and listen: That’s not the sound of rain, it’s millions of caterpillars chewing and pooping. On a clear spring day, the pitter-patter of spongy moth caterpillars eating…Nations need to do more to defend Indigenous rights, UN report says
Jun 6, 2024, 4:00 am By Anita Hofschneider
Two months ago, Makanalani Gomes, a Native Hawaiian activist, spoke about the importance of youth self-determination at the largest global gathering of Indigenous peoples at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. After flying back to Hawaiʻi, she…Caving on climate: Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York
Jun 5, 2024, 4:55 pm By Jake Bittle
At an economic summit in Ireland last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul bragged about her state’s decades-long quest to implement so-called congestion pricing in New York City. Within mere months, the extensive toll system was poised to take effect,…A different kind of youth activist: Meet the high schoolers who invented a microplastics solution
Jun 5, 2024, 11:18 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “I think science is the perfect way to solve this issue. Because a lot of innovation and invention happens in science, and technology is always changing. And so I think, if I really wanted to make a big impact, this would be the way to go.” High…The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming
Jun 5, 2024, 5:00 am By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon…The homeowner mutiny leaving Florida cities defenseless against hurricanes
Jun 4, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Lisa Hendrickson is almost out of sand. Hendrickson is the mayor of Redington Shores, Florida, a well-heeled beach town in Pinellas County. Her town occupies a small section of a razor-thin barrier island that stretches down the western side of the sprawling…Who’s afraid of Hurricane Debby? The peculiar importance of a storm’s name
Jun 4, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
Every year ahead of hurricane season’s official start in June, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases the forecast for the Atlantic Ocean’s tempestuous season ahead. In a predictable cycle, articles start swirling in to answer…Why this summer might bring the wildest weather yet
Jun 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Summers keep getting hotter, and the consequences are impossible to miss: In the summer of 2023, the Northern Hemisphere experienced its hottest season in 2,000 years. Canada’s deadliest wildfires on record bathed skylines in smoke from Minnesota to New…
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Wed 4:45am By Maddy Crowell - Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
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Tue 4:45am By Tom Brown - Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers
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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
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