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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.

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

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen urged Congress decades ago to act on climate change. Now he says he expects reduced aerosol pollution to lead to a steep temperature rise.

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.

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

Florida’s Majestic Manatees Are Starving to Death

Warming Trends: Indoor Air Safer From Wildfire Smoke, a Fish Darts off the Endangered List and Dragonflies Showing the Heat in the UK

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

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

Moving Water in the Everglades Sends a Cascade of Consequences, Some Anticipated and Some Not

A half century after the Everglades were drained, the region’s population has soared to 8 million, and South Floridians are realizing they could run out of water very soon.

By Amy Green

Warming Trends: Tuna for Vegans, Battery Technology and Climate Drives a Tree-Killer to Higher Climes

In the Arctic, Less Sea Ice and More Snow on Land Are Pushing Cold Extremes to Eastern North America

Transition from Sawgrass to coastal habitat in Everglades National Park. Credit: National Park Service

Politics & Policy

Activists Call for Delay to UN Climate Summit, Blaming UK for Vaccine Delays

COP26, already delayed a year by the pandemic, is scheduled for early November in Glasgow. The activists say delegates from developing countries can’t get vaccinated.

By Leslie Hook, Financial Times

Will a Summer of Climate Crises Lead to Climate Action? It’s Not Looking Good

The Riverkeeper’s Quest to Protect the Delaware River Watershed as the Rains Fall and Sea Level Rises

Climate activists gather on a "Global Day of Action" organized by the 'Fridays for Future' climate change movement during the coronavirus pandemic on Sept. 25, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Omer Messinger/Getty Images

Justice

Farming Without a Net

California’s sustainable farms offer lessons in climate resilience, but the agricultural system still favors industrial operations.

By Liza Gross

Baltimore Aspires to ‘Zero Waste’ But Recycles Only a Tiny Fraction of its Residential Plastic

North Carolina’s New Farm Bill Speeds the Way for Smithfield’s Massive Biogas Plan for Hog Farms

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

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 California, the World’s Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger

The rapid expansion of batteries paired with wind and solar is transforming the grid and accelerating the transition to clean energy.

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: Vote Solar’s Leader Is Stepping Down. Here’s What He and His Group Built

Rural Electric Co-ops in Alabama Remain Way Behind the Solar Curve

Vistra's lithium-ion battery system is co-located on the site of its existing Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County. Photo Courtesy of Vistra Corp.

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Amid the Misery of Hurricane Ida, Coastal Restoration Offers Hope. But the Price Is High

By James Bruggers, Bob Berwyn

In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Fire and Deforestation

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