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Eric Adams Said Next to Nothing About Climate Change During New York’s Recent Mayoral Primary

Local advocates worry about the probable next mayor’s ties to real estate developers and their opposition to the city’s ambitious green building law.

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Many Nations Receive Failing Scores on Climate Change and Health

By Katie Livingstone

Houston's skyline, as seen from a railroad yard on the city's perimeter. Credit: Loren Elliott/ AFP via Getty Images.

Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

By Aman Azhar

Remote sensing of methane from high altitude aircraft reveals plumes of the gas coming from the open face, on the left, and from a vent, on the right, at the River Birch landfill outside New Orleans in April 2021. Researchers from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carbon Mapper calculate the rate of methane venting at approximately 2,000 kilograms per hour, which would be 48 metric tons per day. Credit: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA JPL and Carbon Mapper.

EPA Struggles to Track Methane Emissions From Landfills. Here’s Why It Matters

By James Bruggers and Phil McKenna (Inside Climate News), Amy Green (WMFE) and Robert Benincasa (NPR)

Requiem for a Pipeline: Keystone XL Transformed the Environmental Movement and Shifted the Debate over Energy and Climate

By Marianne Lavelle

Thousands Came to Minnesota to Protest New Construction on the Line 3 Pipeline. Hundreds Left in Handcuffs but More Vowed to Fight on.

By Sam Palca, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna

Winona LaDuke welcomes a group of interfaith climate activists to Minnesota on Saturday night at the Northern Pines Camp near Park Rapids. "Thank you for coming," she said. "It doesn't matter what color you are, you have to drink water." Credit: Audrey Gray

Dawn Goodwin and 300 Environmental Groups Consider the new Line 3 Pipeline a Danger to All Forms of Life

By Audrey Gray

With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward

By Marianne Lavelle

Warming Trends: Chief Heat Officers, Disappearing Cave Art and a Game of Climate Survival

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The EPA Calls an Old Creosote Works in Pensacola an Uncontrolled Threat to Human Health. Why Is There No Money to Clean it Up?

By Agya K. Aning, Katie Surma, Kristoffer Tigue

Warming Trends: A Flag for Antarctica, Lonely Hearts ‘Hot for Climate Change Activists,’ and How to Check Your Environmental Handprint

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Climate Activists Converge on Washington With a Gift and a Warning for Biden and World Leaders

By Alicia Diaz

Warming Trends: Mercury in Narwhal Tusks, Major League Baseball Heats Up and Earth Day Goes Online: Avatars Welcome

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction

By Kristoffer Tigue

Warming Trends: Airports Underwater, David Pogue’s New Book and a Summer Olympic Bid by the Coldest Place in Finland

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept

By Kristoffer Tigue, Agya K. Aning, Judy Fahys, Katie Surma

Warming Trends: A Catastrophe for Monarchs, ‘Science Moms’ and Greta’s Cheeky Farewell to Trump

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In Georgia Senate Race, Warnock Brings a History of Black Faith Leaders’ Environmental Activism

By James Bruggers

The Resistance: In the President’s Relentless War on Climate Science, They Fought Back

By Marianne Lavelle

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