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Driven by Steel Production, China’s Belt and Road Construction Carries a Heavy Climate Cost

Strong regulations and incentives are needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from Chinese manufacturing, two new studies conclude.

By Phil McKenna

A worker walks past molten steel at a factory in Huai'an, China, on July 22, 2025. Credit: CN-STR/AFP via Getty Images
An aerial view of British Steel’s Scunthorpe mill on April 12, 2025, in Scunthorpe, England. Activities such as steelmaking have disrupted the Earth’s energy balance. Credit: Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 14. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Health and Climate Consequences of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal ‘Cannot Be Overstated’

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Solar panels and wind turbines are seen at the Huaneng Binzhou new energy power generation project in Binzhou, China, on June 11, 2025. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

China Could Reach Peak Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sooner Than Beijing Planned, New Report Suggests

By Georgina Gustin

A Civil Protection member comforts a woman as a wildfire burns in the village of Veiga das Meas, Spain, on Aug. 16, 2025. Increasingly severe wildfire seasons around the world are one of the signs that some forests are at a climate threshold. Credit: Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future

By Bob Berwyn

White-gray emissions billow from the stacks in the background. In the foreground is an American flag on a telephone pole.

The Cost of Ignoring Fossil Fuel Pollution’s Health Impacts

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A panel presents the United Nations Methane Report at the COP29 climate conference on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future

By Phil McKenna

A Brazilian farmer sprays his field with fertilizer in Balsa Nova, Brazil. Credit: Brunno Covello/picture alliance via Getty Images

To Protect the Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming, Fertilizers Must Be Deployed More Efficiently, UN Says

By Georgina Gustin

A view of Pingmei Shenma Group’s nylon production complex in Pingdingshan, China on Aug. 13, 2022. Credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

US Diplomats Notch a Win on Climate Super Pollutants With Help From the Private Sector

By Phil McKenna

Rob Jackson’s new book “Into the Clear Blue Sky” is set to be released on July 30. Credit: Courtesy of Rob Jackson

‘A Repair Manual for the Planet’: What Would It Take to Restore Our Atmosphere?

By Phil McKenna

A house near the Gavin Power Plant on September 11, 2019 in Cheshire, Ohio. In 2002, the company that owns the Gavin Power Plant, American Electric Power, reached a settlement with the town's residents for $20 million so they would move and not hold the power plant liable for any health issues.

New Report Card Shows Where Ohio Needs to Catch up in Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Kathiann M. Kowalski

A flare burns near Cotulla, Texas, on Oct. 26, 2021. The South Texas town is located within the Eagle Ford Shale, one of the country’s top oil and gas-producing regions. Credit: Aydali Campa/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

How Greenhouse Gases Released by the Oil and Gas Industry Far Exceed What Regulators Think They Know 

By Laura Kraegel, Mollie Jamison and Aydali Campa

A Limit to the Carbon Trees Can Absorb

By Robert Krier, InsideClimate News

New Mexico Adopts Emissions Cap, But Challenges Expected

By Elizabeth McGowan

As Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Ends, Sharp Downward Trend Continues

by Andrew Freedman, Climate Central

EPA Begins Untangling Bush Policies, Starts California's Waiver Review

By Stacy Morford

Beef: What’s Not for Dinner in a Sustainable World

By Max Ajl

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