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A person walks along a flooded street as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm impacts California on Feb. 4 in Santa Barbara. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Atmospheric Rivers in California Create a Perfect Storm of Public Health Risks

By Kiley Price

Bales of plastic bottles at a recycling center in San Jose, Calif. Credit: Aric Crabb/Digital First Media/Bay Area News via Getty Images

A Battle Over Plastic Recycling Claims Heats Up in California Over ‘Truth in Labeling’ Law

By James Bruggers

California Isn’t Ready for a Megaflood. Or the Loss of Daniel Swain.

By Liza Gross

An air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images

Why a State-Led Coalition to Install More Heat Pumps Is a Big Deal for Climate Change

By Kristoffer Tigue

An aerial view of the Tijuana River crossing the Mexico-U.S. border on March 14, 2020. Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

Sewage Across Borders: The Tijuana River Is Spewing Wastewater Into San Diego Amid Historic Storms, Which Could Threaten Public Health

By Kiley Price

U.S. Forest Service firefighters conduct prescribed burning within Oregon's Gilchrist State Forest in May 2023. Credit: U.S. Forest Service

Indictment of US Forest Service ‘Burn Boss’ in Oregon Could Chill ‘Good Fires’ Across the Country

By Grant Stringer

People gather where a home was destroyed by a mudslide as a powerful atmospheric river storm continues to impact Southern California on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Las Tormentas: L.A. County Meets a Next-Level Atmospheric River

By Audrey Gray

Smoke rises from the Oak Fire near Mariposa, Calif. on July 24, 2022. The wildfire burned through several thousand acres while Californians dealt with record-setting temperatures. Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images

Converging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest

By Liza Gross

A view of Expo City during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

COP28 Left a Vacuum California Leaders Aim to Fill

By Liza Gross

A broadcast burn on The Nature Conservancy's Sycan Marsh Preserve in southern Oregon in 2017. Scientists found that prescribed burning helped parts of the preserve survive the enormous Bootleg fire in 2021. Credit: Amanda Rau

In Oregon, a New Program Is Training Burn Bosses to Help Put More “Good Fire” on the Ground

By Grant Stringer

A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow

Groundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia. Credit: Mark Hughes

Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates

By Liza Gross

An oil pumpjack in Kern County, California. Credit: Harika Maddala

California’s Oil Country Faces an ‘Existential’ Threat. Kern County Is Betting on the Carbon Removal Industry to Save It

By Emma Foehringer Merchant, Inside Climate News, and Joshua Yeager, KVPR

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in April 2019. The following month he signed the Pollution Prevention for Our Future Act regulating toxic chemicals in Washington state. Credit: Zach Gibson/Getty Images

Washington Law Attempts to Fill the Void in Federal Regulation of Hazardous Chemicals

By Emma Peterson

Farmworkers work in a field near Bakersfield, Calif. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Dairy cows gather at a farm in Visalia, Calif. on July 5, 2022. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?

By Phil McKenna

A San Joaquin Valley dairy farm is viewed from above on April 13, 2023, in Visalia, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Scientist Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion and other scientist-activist groups staged a play dramatizing the threats fossil fuel development pose to the planet at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

By Liza Gross

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