Joe Manchin wasn’t always a climate ally, but his successor will be worse
Nov 10, 2023, 6:50 pm By Katie MyersJoe Manchin announced his first Senate campaign in 2010 with an ad showing him taking a shot at the…Controlled burns can provide years of protection against wildfires, new study shows
Nov 10, 2023, 2:00 pm By Tik RootWhen data scientist Xaio Wu arrived at Stanford University for his postdoctoral fellowship,…What Canada’s most expensive disaster ever teaches us about climate change
Nov 10, 2023, 4:45 am By Joseph WintersIn Canada’s vast boreal forest — the northern expanse of spruce, fir, pine, and tamarack trees…Millions of homes are being built in fire-prone grasslands
Nov 9, 2023, 4:57 pm By Lyric AquinoHomes built in areas with grasslands and shrublands face a greater risk of fire as development…Saving Great Salt Lake
Nov 9, 2023, 10:30 am By Grist Creative
To combat the biodiversity crisis, the Sierra Club supports establishing a national goal to conserve…Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life
Nov 9, 2023, 4:45 am By Max Graham
Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in…Mercury is still an environmental threat
Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 am By Tristan Ahtone
The negotiations produced no particularly big wins. There is still no agreement on a common, global…The world is doubling down on fossil fuels even as global demand peaks
Nov 8, 2023, 5:40 pm By Jake Bittle
The world’s biggest producers of fossil fuels aren’t letting go of dirty energy just yet. In…How do you take clean AC mainstream? This global health organization has some ideas.
Nov 8, 2023, 10:48 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal…Maine voters reject effort to create the first statewide public power company
Nov 8, 2023, 9:34 am By Akielly Hu
Voters in Maine overwhelmingly rejected scuttling the state’s for-profit utilities in favor of a…Louisiana’s new governor is one of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest defenders
Nov 8, 2023, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Climate change looms larger in Louisiana than it does almost anywhere else in the United States. The…5 years after the Camp Fire, a survivor reflects on Paradise’s recovery
Nov 8, 2023, 4:30 am By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
On the morning the Camp Fire destroyed Paradise, California, Charles Brooks was getting his kids…The West wants to help developing countries transition to renewables. It’s off to a rocky start.
Nov 7, 2023, 5:45 am By Saqib Rahim
The Komati coal-fired power plant, located 88 miles east of Johannesburg in South Africa’s coal…The West wants to help developing countries transition to renewables. It’s off to a rocky start
Nov 7, 2023, 5:45 am By Saqib Rahim
The Komati coal-fired power plant, located 88 miles east of Johannesburg in South Africa’s coal…As offshore wind stumbles, Biden moves to speed up solar and geothermal in the West
Nov 6, 2023, 5:00 pm By Katie MyersThe Biden administration has aimed high when it comes to the nation’s clean energy buildout, but a…Pennsylvania’s fracking boom is hurting its oldest residents
Nov 6, 2023, 4:45 am By Kate Raphael
In 1976, Mary Ellen McConnell, a “concrete city kid,” moved from Bethesda, Maryland, to the…Climate data can save lives. Most countries can’t access it.
Nov 6, 2023, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
Earth just experienced one of its hottest, and most damaging, periods on record. Heat waves in the…Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas
Nov 5, 2023, 9:00 am By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of…Wisconsin cleanup shifts toxic PFAS burden to Alabama Black Belt
Nov 4, 2023, 9:00 am By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch
This article first appeared on Wisconsin Watch and is republished here under a Creative Commons…The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.
Nov 3, 2023, 6:12 pm By Siri Chilukuri
A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers…
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