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"Vanishing Oasis" — First-Place Winner of the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — documents how massive withdrawals from rivers that feed the Great Salt Lake are threatening the survival of millions of migratory birds and creating bare lake beds that…

The top 10 percent of U.S. earners are responsible 40 percent of the country's emissions, according to a new analysis, the first to look at the climate impact of how Americans make money, including from investments. Read more on E360 →

With climate change, parts of the Arctic are seeing greater snowpack. Paradoxically, a thick blanket of snow can speed the melting of permafrost underneath, releasing buried stores of carbon, new research shows. Read more on E360 →

In "Lost Lands" — Second-Place Winner of the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Cambodia-based filmmaker Andy Ball focuses on two families who describe how unchecked mining of river sand for urban development has devastated their fisheries and…

Spreading volcanic rock dust on cropland could help the world reach a key carbon removal goal, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

For the last century, our carbon emissions helped plants grow faster, a rare silver lining in human-caused climate change. But now, as drier conditions set in much of the world, that uptick in growth is leveling off, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

While past studies have linked fracking to earthquakes, scientists now say the drilling method is also a source of even small seismic tremors. Read more on E360 →

In recent decades, aquaculture has proliferated in Armenia’s Ararat Valley. The heightened use of water, combined with a warming climate and increased drought, has led to groundwater reserves shrinking by two thirds, once-bountiful farms withering, and wells…

India is producing one-third less heat-trapping gas for every dollar generated by its economy, officials say. Read more on E360 →

Soils are more rich in life than coral reefs or rainforest canopies, providing a home to nearly two-thirds of all species, according to a sprawling new analysis. Read more on E360 →

Four emerging filmmakers from Latin America collaborated to film Darwin’s frog and the biologist who studies the endangered species in Chile’s Huilo Huilo Biological Reserve. "Hojarasca: The Hidden Hope" is the Third-Place Winner of the 2023 Yale…

A new study of tree rings in Scandinavia is helping to resolve a longstanding question about the Medieval Warm Period. Read more on E360 →

The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has drained a critical reservoir, cutting off flows of water to surrounding farmland in the Kherson region. In recent weeks, the vast irrigation network fed by the reservoir has begun to dry up, new satellite…

Thanks to intensifying storms in the North Pacific, waves along the California coast have grown around a foot taller over the last half-century, new research shows. Read more on E360 →

When China banned plastic waste imports in 2018, exporters in wealthy countries targeted other developing nations. Faced with an unending stream of unrecyclable waste, Indonesia has tightened its regulations and has begun to make progress in stemming the…

With sales of electric cars surging, China is on track to hit peak gasoline demand next year, two new analyses find. Read more on E360 →

Climate change may be, by far, the leading driver of this summer's stifling heat, but three other factors are helping push the mercury to new extremes. Read more on E360 →

Heather McTeer Toney is helping grassroots efforts to block the expansion of U.S. petrochemical facilities, most often in communities of color. They may not call themselves environmentalists, she says, but these communities are on the front lines of the global…

Heather McTeer Toney is helping grassroots efforts to block the expansion of U.S. petrochemical facilities, most often in communities of color. They may not call themselves environmentalists, she says, but these communities are on the front lines of the global…

Extreme heat and high levels of particulate pollution may double the risk of a deadly heart attack, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →