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Ecuador’s High Court Affirms Constitutional Protections for the Rights of Nature in a Landmark Decision

The seven justices of the Constitutional Court found that mining activities pursued by a state mining company and its Canadian partner threatened the Los Cedros protected area’s right to exist and flourish.

The EPA Placed a Texas Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 2018. Why Is the Health Threat Still Unknown?

Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen.

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s How Compressed Air Can Provide Long-Duration Energy Storage

A Canadian company wants to use compressed air to store energy in California.

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

Fossil Fuel Companies Stand to Make Billions From Tax Break in Democrats’ Build Back Better Bill

Finding Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe

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

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

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

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Warming Trends: Elon Musk Haggles Over Hunger, How Warming Makes Birds Smaller and Wings Longer, and Better Glitter From Nanoparticles

The NHL and Chemours Are Spreading ‘Dangerous Misinformation’ About Ice-Rink Refrigerants, a New Report Says

A rendering shows what Veridian at County Park in Ann Arbor, Michigan will look like. Credit: Developed & Designed by THRIVE Collaborative & Union Studio; Visualizations by McLennan Design

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

Justice

‘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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Ecuador’s High Court Affirms Constitutional Protections for the Rights of Nature in a Landmark Decision

The seven justices of the Constitutional Court found that mining activities pursued by a state mining company and its Canadian partner threatened the Los Cedros protected area’s right to exist and flourish.

By Katie Surma

The EPA Placed a Texas Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 2018. Why Is the Health Threat Still Unknown?

Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen.

By Alejandra Martinez, KERA

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s How Compressed Air Can Provide Long-Duration Energy Storage

A Canadian company wants to use compressed air to store energy in California.

By Dan Gearino

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

By James Bruggers

Fossil Fuel Companies Stand to Make Billions From Tax Break in Democrats’ Build Back Better Bill

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Finding Bright Spots in the Global Coral Reef Catastrophe

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

By Hangyun Kim

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