Climate Change
Indian Court Rules That Nature Has Legal Status on Par With Humans—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It
By Katie Surma
Texas’ Wildfire Risks, Amplified by Climate Change, Are Second Only to California’s
By Delger Erdenesanaa, The Texas Observer
A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts
By Bob Berwyn
A Black Woman Fought for Her Community, and Her Life, Amidst Polluting Landfills and Vast ‘Borrow Pits’ Mined for Sand and Clay
By Agya K. Aning
Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky, Plus the Olympic Mountains’ Rapidly Shrinking Glaciers and a Podcast Focused on Florida’s Polluted Environment
By Katelyn Weisbrod
California Attorney General Investigates the Oil and Gas Industry’s Role in Plastic Pollution, Subpoenas Exxon
By James Bruggers
The Largest U.S. Grid Operator Puts 1,200 Mostly Solar Projects on Hold for Two Years
By James Bruggers
The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years
By Bob Berwyn
Inside Clean Energy: US Electric Vehicle Sales Soared in First Quarter, while Overall Auto Sales Slid
By Dan Gearino
UN Report Says Humanity Has Altered 70 Percent of the Earth’s Land, Putting the Planet on a ‘Crisis Footing’
By Georgina Gustin
Florida Judge Asked to Recognize the Legal Rights of Five Waterways Outside Orlando
By Katie Surma
Proponents Say Storing Captured Carbon Underground Is Safe, But States Are Transferring Long-Term Liability for Such Projects to the Public
By Nicholas Kusnetz
EPA Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
By Victoria St. Martin
California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference
By Liza Gross
Warming Trends: Smelly Beaches in Florida Deterred Tourists, Plus the Dearth of Climate Change in Pop Culture and Threats to the Colorado River
By Katelyn Weisbrod
Two US Electrical Grid Operators Claim That New Rules For Coal Ash Could Make Electricity Supplies Less Reliable
By James Bruggers