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Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

Following a hot summer, gas supplies were low, raising concerns about price shocks this winter.

China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part

Under the Kigali Amendment, Chinese chemical companies must stop emitting a super-pollutant called HFC-23. The challenges are enormous.

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers.

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

Global Methane Pledge Offers Hope on Climate in Lead Up to Glasgow

Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too

Warming Trends: Shakespeare, Dogs and Climate Change on British TV; Less Crowded Hiking Trails; and Toilet Paper Flunks Out

Noxious Neighbors: The Hidden Dangers of Heated Tanks Storing Asphalt and Other Heavy Fuels

The Fifth Crime: The Campaign to Make “Ecocide” an International Crime

A soy plantation in the Amazon rainforest near Santarém in the state of Pará, Brazil, on May 13, 2006. Credit: Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images

Sowing Risk: How Big Banks’ Investment in Agriculture Fuels the Climate Crisis.

Holger Kenda, on the far right, on his last day working in the mines, Dec. 21, 2018. It was a media event, with the ceremonial extraction of the last piece of hard coal from an underground mine in Germany. The end of subsidies for mining hard coal meant t

Power Switch: Lessons From Germany’s Energy Revolution

Hot Molecules: Low Hanging Super Greenhouse Gases

Warning signs are posted at the French Limited Superfund site. Credit: Spike Johnson

Superfund Super Threats: Toxic Sites at Climate Risk Near You

Anti-Scientists: A Contrarian Minority’s Suspect Work

California's deadliest wildfire on record swept through the down of Paradise in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

American Climate: The Future is Already Here

Fumes in South Portland: The Oil Storage Tanks Next Door

Dangers Without Borders: Is the Military Ready for Warming?

Harvesting Peril: Extreme Weather on the American Farm

Finding Middle Ground: Climate Conversations Across America

Choke Hold: How the Fossil Fuel Industry Guards Its Interests

Exxon: The Road Not Taken (aka #ExxonKnew)

Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World

Big Oil, Bad Air: Fracking the Texas Prairie

Clean Break: Germany’s Energy Transformation

Dilbit Disaster: The Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of

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Science

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition.

By Bob Berwyn

The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was in the Previous 50, a Renowned Climate Scientist Warns

Florida’s Majestic Manatees Are Starving to Death

A diver looks at reef of a major bleaching on the coral reefs of the Society Islands on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Politics & Policy

In Florida, Environmental Oversight Improves Under DeSantis, But Enforcement Issues Remain

A new report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group cites progress but finds compliance dropping and inspections down from 2010 levels.

By Amy Green

In the Democrats’ Budget Package, a Billion Tons of Carbon Cuts at Stake

Illinois Now Boasts the ‘Most Equitable’ Climate Law in America. So What Will That Mean?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has made the environment a priority of his administration, but a new report shows that the state Department of Environmental Protection conducted fewer inspections in 2020 than the year before. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Justice

Killings of Environmental Advocates Around the World Hit a Record High in 2020

Most were Indigenous people or small scale farmers, who were defending forests against extractive industries, a new report by Global Witness found.

By Georgina Gustin

Indigenous Tribes Facing Displacement in Alaska and Louisiana Say the U.S. Is Ignoring Climate Threats

Fossil Fuels

Biggest “Direct Air Capture” Plant Starts Pulling in Carbon, But Involves a Fraction of the Gas in the Atmosphere

Even a planned facility 10 times larger would have almost no impact on the 33 billion tons of carbon to be emitted this year.

By Leslie Hook, Financial Times

To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground

After a Clash Over Costs and Carbon, a Minnesota Utility Wants to Step Back from Its Main Electricity Supplier

Clean Energy

Inside Clean Energy: In Illinois, an Energy Bill Passes That Illustrates the Battle Lines of the Broader Energy Debate

Before the final vote, Republicans stressed cost while Democrats argued the bill would improve the state for future generations.

By Dan Gearino

Now on Hold, Georgia’s Progressive Program for Rooftop Solar Comes With a Catch

Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger

The Illinois State Capitol Building, in Springfield, Illinois on May 05, 2012. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

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Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

Following a hot summer, gas supplies were low, raising concerns about price shocks this winter.

By Dan Gearino

China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part

Under the Kigali Amendment, Chinese chemical companies must stop emitting a super-pollutant called HFC-23. The challenges are enormous.

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

As climate change amplifies the health risks of extreme heat and pollution from wildfires, researchers scramble to protect farmworkers.

By Liza Gross

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

By Liza Gross

Global Methane Pledge Offers Hope on Climate in Lead Up to Glasgow

By Phil McKenna

Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too

By Katie Surma

Warming Trends: Shakespeare, Dogs and Climate Change on British TV; Less Crowded Hiking Trails; and Toilet Paper Flunks Out

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