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…Why this summer might bring the wildest weather yet
Jun 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima MulkeySummers 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…How an Aboriginal woman fought a coal company and won
Jun 3, 2024, 4:15 am By Anita Hofschneider
In 2019, Australia was on the cusp of approving a new coal mine on traditional Wirdi land in Queensland that would have extracted approximately 40 million tons of coal each year for 35 years. The Waratah coal mine would have destroyed a nature refuge and…Electric vehicles need cobalt. Congolese miners work in dangerous conditions to get it.
Jun 2, 2024, 9:00 am By Adam Mahoney, Capital B
This story was originally published by CapitalB. The story of “John Doe 1” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is tucked in a lawsuit filed five years ago against several U.S. tech companies, including Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle…California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar projects
Jun 1, 2024, 9:00 am By Julie Cart, CalMatters
This story was originally published by CalMatters. California’s utilities regulator adopted new rules for community solar projects on Friday, despite warnings from clean energy advocates that the move will actually undercut efforts to expand solar power…San Diego ponders a bid to take over its for-profit energy utility
May 31, 2024, 4:45 am By Akielly Hu
Activists pushing San Diego to take over the city’s investor-owned utility aren’t letting last year’s defeat of a similar effort in Maine deter their goal of establishing a nonprofit power company. They recently submitted petitions bearing more than…Better late than never: Wealthy nations finally meet $100 billion climate aid goal
May 31, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
International climate negotiations have long been haunted by a broken promise. In the wake of collapsed negotiations at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009, wealthy nations, led by the United States, pledged to provide developing…Georgia governor calls for even more nuclear power despite budget woes
May 31, 2024, 4:00 am By Emily Jones
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called for more new nuclear energy at an event Wednesday celebrating the first new nuclear reactors built in the U.S. in decades, at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, Georgia. The construction of those reactors, known as Vogtle Units 3 and…Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
May 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
International climate change panels often point out that women are more vulnerable to climate change than men. Hotter temperatures and more volatile weather inflame existing gender-based vulnerabilities, like domestic violence, inadequate access to health…Four lost pregnancies. Five weeks of IVF injections. One storm.
May 30, 2024, 4:40 am By Zoya Teirstein
On their very first date, Kirsti and Justin Mahon talked about wanting kids. They met on a dating app in 2016, nine months after Kirsti moved from Texas to Florida. Almost immediately, they fell in love. A little over two years later, they got married. Six…Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal ‘double risk’ for malaria
May 30, 2024, 4:35 am By Zoya Teirstein
Roger Casupang was working in a coastal clinic on the north side of Papua New Guinea, an island nation of 9 million in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, when a pregnant woman burst into his facility. She was in labor, moments away from delivering twins. She also…Salt in the womb: How rising seas erode reproductive health
May 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
Today, 30-year-old garment factory worker Khadiza Akhter lives in Savar, a suburb of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Her small concrete house is clean and organized. Green shutters frame the windows, and clothes hang on lines outside her front door. A water…‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth
May 30, 2024, 4:25 am By Virginia Gewin, Vox
When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. It wasn’t particularly hot in Oakland, California, with high temperatures reaching 80 degrees…Photos help tell climate stories. This media library lets conservation orgs access them for free.
May 29, 2024, 11:16 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” Photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams The spotlight As a writer, I obviously have a fondness for words. I…Cicadas à la carte? Here’s why it’s so hard to get Americans to eat bugs.
May 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
When Cortni Borgerson thinks about the trillion or so periodical cicadas emerging from underground, she sees more than clumsily flying insects flitting from tree to tree in search of a mate. She sees lunch. Some may find that idea revolting, a belief often, if…Can carbon offsets actually work? The Biden administration thinks so.
May 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
On Tuesday, the Biden administration unveiled new guidelines on “responsible participation” in the voluntary carbon market, or VCM — the system that allows companies to say they’ve canceled out their greenhouse gas emissions through the purchase of…Recycling isn’t easy. The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is doing it anyway.
May 28, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Allie “Nokko” Johnson is a member of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, and they love teaching young tribal members about recycling. Johnson helps them make Christmas ornaments out of things that were going to be thrown away, or melts down small crayons to…Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals
May 27, 2024, 9:00 am By Jim Robbins, Yale Environment 360
Can metals that naturally occur in seawater be mined, and can they be mined sustainably? A company in Oakland, California, says yes. And not only is it extracting magnesium from ocean water — and from waste brine generated by industry — it is doing it in a…Puerto Rico’s rooftop solar boom is at risk, advocates warn
May 26, 2024, 9:00 am By Maria Gallucci
In Puerto Rico, residents are flocking to rooftop solar and backup batteries in search of more reliable, affordable — and cleaner — alternatives to the central power grid. Fire stations, hospitals, and schools continue adding solar-plus-battery systems…
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4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land
4:00am By Kylie Mohr - This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. Then came Trump’s funding cuts.
Thu 4:45am By Ayurella Horn-Muller - There’s only one statewide ballot this year in Georgia — and it’s important
Thu 4:30am By Emily Jones - Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born
Wed 3:16pm By Kate Yoder - ‘For anybody who could use a break’: A Q&A with sci-fi author Becky Chambers
Wed 10:18am By Claire Elise Thompson - Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?
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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