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On a mild December evening in 2017,  Southern California’s powerful Santa Ana winds fueled a massive wildfire after smashing power lines together and carrying molten bits of metal onto the dry ground.  The Thomas Fire, California’s largest at the time,…

The Biden Administration announced new measures on Monday to protect Americans from extreme heat, after hundreds perished during unprecedented heat waves in the Pacific Northwest this summer, and power outages from Hurricane Ida last month killed elderly…

The United States and the European Union pledged on Friday to reduce methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030, ushering in the start of what they hope will be a “global methane pledge” to quickly address warming, as the next round…

For Chuck O’Neal, a lifelong outdoorsman and environmentalist, the moment of truth came on election night 2020, as results rolled in from perhaps the most partisan campaign season in American history. He wasn’t watching Trump or Biden. O’Neal had spent…

CULTURE Dog, Dog, Dog, Dog, Climate Change “Climate change” was mentioned once for every 22 times the word “dog” was spoken on British television stations, according to a new analysis—about as often as the word “furlough,” and a little less often…

ORLANDO, Fla.—Florida’s oversight of the state’s fragile natural resources has improved under Gov. Ron DeSantis but remains far behind where it was a decade ago, according to a new report by a nonprofit advocacy group supporting current and former…

Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas.  Scattered about the globe like species-rich ocean rainforests, they help nurture about half the world’s marine life, a bounty that…

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia was explaining why he opposed his Democratic colleagues’ $3.5 trillion budget plan, but his words summed up the Congressional response on climate change for the past 30 years. “What is the urgency?” asked Manchin in an…

This article is the result of a partnership between Inside Climate News and the Chicago Sun-Times. Illinois is now the first Midwestern state to set climate-fighting targets for phasing out coal and natural gas in favor of cleaner energy sources like wind and…

If you want to understand the politics of the clean energy transition, I could give you a stack of books to read and a list of experts to consult. Or, you could just watch the debate on the floor of the Illinois Senate on Monday.  In about 80 minutes, each…