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Scientists have filmed a snailfish five miles underwater in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench south of Japan. It is the deepest fish ever recorded. Read more on E360 →

Countries will establish a fund to pay for "loss and damage" from climate disasters by the end of this year, a leading climate diplomat says. Read more on E360 →

Siddharth Kara spent four years researching the cobalt boom in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its steep human and environmental costs. In an e360 interview, he talks about the horrific conditions in the mines that are putting hundreds of thousands of…

With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’s wild lands to his efforts to push the nation toward…

EU countries have approved an end to the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035, allowing the law to enter into force. Read more on E360 →

Foundations have given more money to individual green groups, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and The Nature Conservancy, than to every U.S. environmental justice group put together, according to a new analysis. Read more on E360 →

The European Central Bank has made marked progress on its goal of investing in lower-carbon corporations, cutting the carbon intensity of new corporate bond purchases in half, a new report shows. Read more on E360 →

Despite rules requiring remediation, only a few of the nearly 300 U.S. power plants storing toxic ash — the residue of burning coal — have started cleanups or have plans to do so. Many of these sites are polluting groundwater, putting the drinking water…

A century of rising temperatures has extended the growing season of hardwood forests in the eastern U.S. by one month, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

Costa Rica has won international acclaim for its initiatives to restore its forests. But those successes are now jeopardized by conflicts over the government’s failure to return traditional lands to the Indigenous people who are regarded as the best forest…

The combined weight of every human is more than 10 times that of every wild land mammal put together, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →

A Swiss start-up will install solar panels on a railway in western Switzerland, pending approval from transportation officials. Read more on E360 →

Faced with embargoes of Russian oil and gas, Europe ramped up production of solar and wind power, got serious about energy conservation, and tweaked policies to speed its green transition. Despite fears of increased emissions, the EU remained on track to meet…

As the planet rapidly approaches 1.5 degrees C of warming, scientists warn that rising temperatures are degrading the Earth's ability to soak up carbon dioxide, threatening to further exacerbate climate change. To keep warming in check, they stress, countries…

The Guarani Mbya people are working to restore the once-vast Atlantic Forest, which has been largely lost to development. Gaining official tenure of their lands, they hope, will boost their efforts, which range from planting native trees to reintroducing…

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has announced plans to plant 5 million trees to help the country cope with climate change. Read more on E360 →

U.S. scientists have deployed a modified Korean War-era bomber to measure trace gases in the stratosphere that reflect sunlight. The goal of the project: to better understand how humans might use such gases to cool an overheated planet. Read more on E360 →

Last year saw a record buildout of energy storage in the U.S., with battery and thermal storage growing by 73 percent, a new report finds. Read more on E360 →

Activists are blaming a recent spate of humpback strandings off New York and New Jersey on seismic exploration by offshore wind companies. But scientists say the deaths are not unusual and are likely due to increased ship traffic and entanglements with fishing…

Only one in every 100,000 people on Earth are breathing safe levels of fine particulate pollution, according to a new study. Read more on E360 →