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Inside Climate News reporter Liza Gross (right) takes the handoff of a cougar kitten from Caitlin Kupar, of Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, while accompanying biologists with the organization's Olympic Cougar Project to a cougar den on the Olympic Peninsula. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

Q&A: A Reporter Joins Scientists as They Work to Stop the Killing of Cougars

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines

By Emma Peterson

USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity to Help Endangered Species

By Kiley Price

Forests Are Worth More Than Their Carbon, a New Paper Argues

By Keerti Gopal

Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes

By Phil McKenna

Why New York’s Curbside Composting Program Will Yield Hardly Any Compost

By Jake Bolster

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is supporting the Decarbonization Network of Appalachia, one of two groups in the Western Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region that have been asked by the federal government to submit final applications for so-called hydrogen hubs. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

By Jon Hurdle

$Gillian Graber, executive director and founder of Protect PT, an organization focused on educating Pennsylvanians living in the state’s southwestern counties on the impacts of fossil fuel drilling on their communities, says repurposed conventional oil wells were never engineered to hold millions of gallons of tocis fracking wastewater. Credit: Scott Goldsmith$

EPA Approves Permit for Controversial Fracking Disposal Well in Pennsylvania

By Jake Bolster

Before European colonization of North America there were as many as 2 million gray wolves across North America, but populations have drastically declined. Wolves have been dispersing from Yellowstone National Park since their reintroduction there in the 1990s and biologists estimate that there are now around 7,000 wolves in the lower 48 states. Credit: Bert de Tilly, Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use.

Q&A: How the Wolves’ Return Enhances Biodiversity

Crowding Out Cougars

By Liza Gross, Photos by Michael Kodas

Like Canaries in a Coal Mine, Dragonflies Signal Threats to Freshwater Ecosystems

By Juanita Gordon

Students, teachers and community supporters in Denver held up signs in 2019 as they took part in a protest outside of the Denver Public Schools administration building to demand equity for students attending classes in excessively hot classrooms. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post.

What High Heat in the Classroom Is Doing to Millions of American Children

A Medical Toolkit for Climate Resiliency Is Built on the Latest Epidemiology and ER Best Practices

By Danish Bajwa

Some large lobsters are still around. Josiah Mayo stands on board Mike Packard’s F/V J&J with a nine-pound lobster in a photo taken two weeks ago. Credit: Mike Packard/Provincetown Independent.

Lobstermen Face Hypoxia in Outer Cape Waters

By Georgia Hall, Provincetown Independent

New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Polar Bear Decline

By Bob Berwyn

Scientists Find Success With New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology

By Ananya Chetia

Could ‘One Health’ be the Optimal Approach for Human, Animal and Environmental Health?

By Emma Peterson

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