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In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores

A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.

The Libertarian Developer Looming Over West Maui’s Water Conflict

Peter Martin spent decades guzzling water around Lāhainā. Then came the fire.

By Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle, Grist

Six Numbers Illustrating Why COP28 Could Be a Heavy Lift for World Leaders

This year’s U.N. climate summit could be an especially important one as carbon emissions continue to reach historic highs, bringing the planet closer to critical tipping points.

“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark

By Sam Schramski and Cícero Pedrosa Neto

A New Law Regulating the Cosmetics Industry Expands the FDA’s Power But Fails to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products

Black Women Face Disproportionate Risks From Largely Unregulated Toxic Substances in Beauty and Personal Care Products

A Walk in the Woods with My Brain on Fire: Autumn

What Happened to the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Boom?

A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market

The EU Overhauls Its Law Covering Environmental Crimes, Banning Specific Acts and Increasing Penalties

Ahead of COP28, a Call for a ‘Tangible Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels as Soon as Possible’

Harm City: The quest for environmental justice and climate adaptation in Baltimore

Axed: How the U.S. Forest Service Depletes the Carbon Sink by Logging Mature Tree Stands

State of Denial: How Texas’ Environmental Regulators Enable Big Oil and Other Polluters

A thermal image of SF6-containing electrical equipment at a Duke Energy substation. The image does not show any leaks. Credit: Phil McKenna

The Immortals: Greenhouse Gases That Live Forever

Something in the Water: Regulators Say Growing Crops With Oil Wastewater Is Safe, But Evidence Is Scant

A detail of the pilot carbon dioxide capture plant is pictured at Amager Bakke waste incinerator in Copenhagen on June 24, 2021. Credit: Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

Pipe Dreams: Is Carbon Capture a Climate Solution or a Dangerous Distraction?

Villager Caroline is seen in a withered maize crops field in Kidemu in Kilifi County, Kenya, March 23, 2022. Scattered on the five-acre farm in Bandari village, Kidemu sub-location in Kenya's coastal Kilifi County, were withered maize crops. Adam Ndamunga, an officer with Kenya National Drought Management Authority NDMA in Kilifi, said the drought situation in the region started in August 2021 and has been progressing due to inadequate rains. The United Nations relief agency said the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of its worst droughts in recent history, with more than 13 million people severely food insecure in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Credit: Dong Jianghui/Xinhua via Getty Images

Food Shocks: Climate Change and the Coming Famines

Signs opposing the solar project are plentiful all around Williamsport Ohio. July 12, 2022.

Solar Opposites: A Standoff Over Renewable Energy in Rural America

EPA On-Scene Coordinator Chuck Berry fixes a sign on a yard his team cleaned on English Avenue on May 12, 2022. Since 2019, the agency has been testing soil in the study area, which spans more than 600 acres, for lead. Credit: Aydali Campa

The Superfund Next Door: Toxins & Mistrust in Atlanta

Refuse bags full of materials for recycling in different colored plastic bags. Credit: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images

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

Gaslit: The Costs of Flaring and Venting Natural Gas by Fossil Fuel Companies

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

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

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Science

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

Concentrations of HFC-23, one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, remained elevated in East Asia after China, a known past polluter, agreed to curb emissions.

By Phil McKenna and Peter Aldhous

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet

Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 14, 2016. Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images

The California company has defaulted on $289 million in Nevada bonds and put $500 million in financing for a facility in Indiana on hold. Meanwhile, U.S. senators don’t want tax credits financing plastics-to-jet-fuel schemes.

By James Bruggers

US Regions Will Suffer a Stunning Variety of Climate-Caused Disasters, Report Finds

Can US, China Climate Talks Spur Progress at COP28?

California-based Fulcrum BioEnergy wants to turn trash and plastic into jet fuel at this former cement plant in Gary, Indiana. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

Justice

As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land

The Tonawanda Seneca see the industrial development next door as a threat to the woods they depend on for game and medicines, and the failure of the company and permitting agencies to consult them as another assault on their treaty rights.

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Corruption and Rights Abuses Are Flourishing in Lithium Mining Across Africa, a New Report Finds

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

Plug Power's plant under construction at the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP, in Genesee County, New York. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Genesee County Economic Development Center

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Flock to Plastics Treaty Talks as Scientists, Environmentalists Seek Conflict of Interest Policies

With growing calls for the need to reduce plastic production, industry groups are pushing back.

By James Bruggers

Nearby Residents and Environmentalists Criticize New Dominion Natural Gas Power Plant As a ‘Slap In the Face’

Texas Violated the Law with Lax Emissions Limits, Federal Court Rules

A climate activist holds a banner next to a plastic installation after marching to demand drastic reduction in global plastic production during the Break Free From Plastic Movement March ahead of the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-3) in Nairobi on November 11, 2023.

Clean Energy

Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota

Mining the critical minerals needed for electric vehicle batteries could threaten local water supply and Indigenous culture.

By Karina Atkins

Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?

Q&A: The Hopes—and Challenges—for Blue and Green Hydrogen

Native Americans Harvey Goodsky Jr. and his wife Morningstar harvest wild rice on Rice Lake in north central Minnesota. The Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Aitkin County, in north central Minnesota, is home to pristine a 4,500-acre body of water that provides the wild rice harvest that the Ojibwe have depended on for countless generations.

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In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores

A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.

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This year’s U.N. climate summit could be an especially important one as carbon emissions continue to reach historic highs, bringing the planet closer to critical tipping points.

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“Carbon Cowboys” Chasing Emissions Offsets in the Amazon Keep Forest-Dwelling Communities in the Dark

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Harm City: The quest for environmental justice and climate adaptation in Baltimore

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

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