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Finding Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe

The first-ever report on the world’s coral reefs presents a grim picture, as losses mount due to global warming. But there are signs of hope.

By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360

Soft Corals Are Dying Around Jeju Island, a Biosphere Reserve That’s Home to a South Korean Navy Base

Warming Trends: New Rules for California Waste, Declining Koala Bears and Designs Meant to Help the Planet

Ecologist Christian Voolstra (left) and a colleague collect fragments of coral for a rapid stress test to determine their resilience. Credit: Pete West

Politics & Policy

At COP26, a Consensus That Developing Nations Need Far More Help Countering Climate Change

The world’s wealthiest nations pledged $100 billion at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. Getting there hasn‘t been simple, or easy.

By Agya K. Aning

Maryland, Virginia Lawmakers Spearhead Drive to Make the Chesapeake Bay a National Recreation Area

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Money for Recycling, But the Debate Over Plastics Rages On

Activists seen holding banner during a protest ahead of the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Credit: Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

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‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

A smelting company has poisoned rivers, killed off boreal forest and belched out more sulfur dioxide than active volcanoes. Now it wants to produce more metal for the “green economy.”

By Marianne Lavelle

In San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood, Advocates Have Taken Air Monitoring Into Their Own Hands

Chemours’ Process for Curtailing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Produce Hazardous Air Pollutants in Louisville

Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, with the sprawl of the Norilsk Nickel complex visible below. He toured the area with Russian journalists shortly after resigning from his job with Russia's environmental protection agency due to his concern over what he saw as its failure to fully investigate the spill of 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel into Arctic waterways last year. Credit: Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR

Fossil Fuels

Concerns Linger Over a Secretive Texas Company That Owns the Largest Share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Hilcorp Energy Co. has a spotty pipeline safety record and refuses to make its financial records public. Can it safeguard the pipeline from climate change?

By David Hasemyer

Canada’s Tar Sands: Destruction So Vast and Deep It Challenges the Existence of Land and People

Bill Gates’ Vision for Next-Generation Nuclear Power in Wyoming Coal Country

A part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is seen on Sept. 17, 2019 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Clean Energy

The Clean Energy Transition Enters Hyperdrive

Researchers argue that the shift to carbon-free energy is gaining momentum, largely because of economic benefits.

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: For Offshore Wind Energy, Bigger is Much Cheaper

This Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Is Pitched for Washington State. Can it ‘Change the World’?

Workers install photovoltaic panels on the roof of a fish processing plant on Nov. 16, 2021 in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. Credit: Yao Feng/VCG via Getty Images

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