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By Marianne Lavelle

Timm Martin points out areas that are part of the Jellico Vegetation Management proposal to clear cut and log on 10.000 acres inside the Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

President Joe Biden waves as before test driving an electric Hummer as he tours the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan on Nov. 17, 2021. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Heavy Electric Vehicles Jeopardize Climate Action and Public Safety, Experts Warn

By Kristoffer Tigue

Lee's Ferry, pictured here, serves as the point where negotiators of the Colorado River Compact divided the river into two basins. Credit: Luke Runyon

The Colorado River Compact Turns 100 Years Old. Is It Still Working?

By Luke Runyon, KUNC

An aerial view shows the shores and the dam of the reservoir of the Saint-Peyres in Angles, southwestern France, on August 27, 2022. According to information collected by the observatory managed by the European Commission, the European continent has experienced a historic drought, the worst in nearly 500 years. The Global Drought Observatory (GDO) published a damning report on the current aridity in Europe on August 23, 2022. Credit: Lionel Bonaventure / AFP via Getty Images

Study Finds Global Warming Fingerprint on 2022’s Northern Hemisphere Megadrought

By Bob Berwyn

An Emory University student collects a blood sample from Carnetta Jones, right, at Cosmopolitan AME Church on Atlanta's west side on July 30, 2022. The university is studying the community's exposure to lead and other contaminants after high levels of lead were found in the soil of two historically Black neighborhoods. Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon/Deep Indigo Collective for Inside Climate News

Progress in Baby Steps: Westside Atlanta Lead Cleanup Slowly Earns Trust With Help From Local Institutions

By Aydali Campa

Power lines strung through the Florida Everglades. Credit: Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A Dirty Scandal for a Clean Energy Leader

By Dan Gearino

A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. - The California wildfire ripped through thousands of acres on July 23 after being sparked a day earlier, as millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat with already record-setting temperatures due to climb. Credit: David McNew / AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

By Bob Berwyn

Yan Yao (left) and Ye Zhang work with solid-state sodium batteries.Credit: University of Houston

Inside Clean Energy: Solid-State Batteries for EVs Make a Leap Toward Mass Production

By Dan Gearino

A Baltimore resident washes her hair in a fountain at Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 30, 2021, as a heat wave threatens to make it the city's hottest day of the year. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

From the Middle East to East Baltimore, a Johns Hopkins Professor Works to Make the City More Climate-Resilient

By Aman Azhar

Two men sleep in a roadside bed during the heatwave in Kolkata, India on April 25, 2022. Maximum temperature was 38 degrees Celsius and minimum temperature in Kolkata was 28 degree Celsius according to an Indian Meteorological Department of Kolkata. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Warmer Nights Caused by Climate Change Take a Toll on Sleep

By Victoria St. Martin

People take picture beneath cherry blossoms near the national assembly on April 09, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul's famous Yeouiseoro street is open for people to enjoy the cherry blossom season after two years of closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Warming Trends: Nature and Health Studies Focused on the Privileged, $1B for Climate School and Old Tires Detour Into Concrete

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A man throws water on his face to cool off as the temperature exceeds 46 degrees in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 27, 2022. Temperatures above the seasonal norm have adversely affected daily life in Pakistan. Credit: Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk

By Zoha Tunio

Participants attend the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas on March 7, 2022. CERAWeek is one of the largest and most influential global energy forums. Credit: Photo by Yi-Chin Lee/Xinhua via Getty Images

At Global Energy Conference, Oil and Gas Industry Leaders Argue For Fossil Fuels’ Future in the Energy Transition

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Members of the environmental advocacy group Stand.earth awarded a tongue-in-cheek “coal medal” on Wednesday to Lululemon Athletica, best known for its yoga gear, at the company's Vancouver store. The fast-growing apparel brand relies heavily on coal power to source, weave and dye its fabric and manufacture its clothing. Credit: Stand.earth

Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions

By Phil McKenna

A diver checks the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Major bleaching is occurring on the coral reefs of the islands in French Polynesia. The marine biologist teams from the Centre for Island Research and Environmental Observatory, specialists in coral ecosystems, are working on “resilient corals.” The teams identify, mark and perform genetic analysis of corals that are not impacted by thermal stress. They then produce coral cuttings which are grown in a “coral nursery” and compared to other colonies to study the resilience of the corals. (Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images).

Warming Ocean Leaves No Safe Havens for Coral Reefs

By Bob Berwyn

Guillermo Fernandez holds a sign reading "Hunger strike for the climate for our children" during his hunger strike next to the Swiss House of Parliament in Bern on November 28, 2021. Fernandez wants to force to Federal Assembly to gather for a mandatory training session on the climate and ecological emergency. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Join Swiss Hunger Strike to Raise Climate Alarm

By Bob Berwyn

A wildfire burns in the Port Hills in Victoria Park above Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. New research studying carbon deposited in glacial ice in Antarctica indicates that land-clearing fires set by the Māori people of New Zealand before the Industrial Revolution may have had a larger impact on the climate than previously believed. Credit: Matias Delacroix/NurPhoto via Getty Images

How Much Did Ancient Land-Clearing Fires in New Zealand Affect the Climate?

By Bob Berwyn

Video: Carolina Tribe Fighting Big Poultry Joined Activists Pushing Administration to Act on Climate and Justice

Story and Video by Aman Azhar

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