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Since October, Los Angeles County has saved up enough stormwater to meet the demand of one in four residents for a year. Uncommonly heavy rains allowed the county to capitalize on its billion-dollar investment in storage infrastructure. Read more on E360 →

Together, coal and gas generated 21 percent of electricity in the EU last month, a new low that reflects the rapid adoption of renewable power. Read more on E360 →

Journalist Marcel Gomes has traced beef in supermarkets and fast food restaurants in the U.S. and Europe to Brazilian ranches on illegally cleared land. In an e360 interview, he talks about the challenges of documenting the supply chains and getting companies…

Facing increasing land subsidence, saltwater intrusion, and flooding linked with development, Vietnam has committed to changing its approach to managing the Mekong Delta. New initiatives call for retrofitting dikes and dams to restore flood regimes, using…

Increasingly, businesses are writing off their carbon emissions by funding the conservation of forests. A new report finds that while such schemes have made “limited” progress in curbing deforestation, they have largely failed to alleviate poverty in…

A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being hunted to the edge of extinction. Read more on E360 →

A new U.N. report warns that environmental journalists across the globe are facing growing violence and intimidation. Read more on E360 →

Activist Nonhle Mbuthuma founded a local organization along South Africa’s Wild Coast to fight a proposed strip mine 17 years ago. Despite ongoing personal threats, she’s still working to protect her Pondoland community from oil exploration and other…

For the first time since the mid-1990s, U.S. wind generation dropped in 2023, according to government figures. The slump is the result of weak winds in the Midwest, and it comes despite the continued buildout of wind turbines nationally. Read more on E360 →

In the last decade, Indonesia has made significant progress in halting the loss of its forests. But the election of military man Prabowo Subianto as president is raising concerns that a boom in mining nickel, used in EV batteries, could lead to a new wave of…

Climate change made the disastrous 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest larger and longer-lasting than it would have been otherwise, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

The European eel, whose life cycle remains shrouded in mystery, is a staple of the continent’s cultures and cuisines. But after decades of decline in its populations, scientists are calling for a total ban on catching the iconic fish, which are facing a…

Wind and solar are continuing to push fossil fuels off the U.K. power grid. So far this year, wind is the nation's leading source of electricity, and for brief periods, the island of Great Britain has scarcely needed coal or natural gas. Read more on E360 →

To reach its climate goals, the Biden administration aims to extend the lives of U.S. nuclear reactors. But a new report finds regulators have not studied whether increasingly extreme weather could threaten the safety or viability of power plants largely built…

For billions of years, the oceans have been absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Now, to boost that drawdown, startup companies and researchers are experimenting with ‘marine carbon dioxide removal’ by altering the chemistry of the ocean and sinking biomass…

A new report alleges the U.N. has been complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from six World Heritage Sites in Africa and Asia. Read more on E360 →

Reprising her role as Brazil's environment minister, Marina Sliva is determined to reverse the rampant destruction of the Amazon. In an e360 interview, she talks about her efforts to crack down on illegal mining and logging and to bolster protections for the…

Greece plans to create two large marine parks and end bottom trawling, it announced at an international conference on the protecting the world's oceans. It also aims to cut the volume of plastic waste flowing into Greek waters in half. Read more on E360 →

More than 80 years after the iconic Xerces Blue butterfly vanished from San Francisco, researchers have analyzed century-old specimens of the butterfly to track down its closest living relative, the Silvery Blue. Last week, they released a handful of Silvery…

In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on international markets. The project not only preserves their highly biodiverse rainforest, but it funnels life-changing income to…