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Two audience members hold each other during a screening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of the film "A Letter to my Sisters," a documentary about young women and breast cancer produced by Nia Imani Bailey, on October 7, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Caroline Gutman

A New Law Regulating the Cosmetics Industry Expands the FDA’s Power But Fails to Ban Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products

By Victoria St. Martin

A Walk in the Woods with My Brain on Fire: Autumn

Text and photos by David Sassoon
Trucks hauling cut timber in Brazil legally must have license tags visible on the ends of the logs. The driver of this truck, on the Transgarimpeira, near Itaituba, confirmed that his load of hardwoods is illegal and without the required tags. Credit: Larry C. Price

The EU Overhauls Its Law Covering Environmental Crimes, Banning Specific Acts and Increasing Penalties

By Katie Surma
Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin
A volunteer collects plastic waste that washed up on the shores and mangroves of Freedom Island to mark International Coastal Clean-up Day in September 2023 in Las Pinas, Metro Manila, Philippines. Credit: Ezra Acayan/Getty Images

This Week in Nairobi, Nations Gather for a Third Round of Talks on an International Plastics Treaty, Focusing on Its Scope and Ambition

By James Bruggers
Local residents wade through flooding caused by high ocean tides in Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands, on February 20, 2011, with a warning of worse to come because of rising sea levels.

After a Last-Minute Challenge to New Loss and Damage Deal, U.S. Joins Global Consensus Ahead of COP28

By Bob Berwyn
In a photo taken on May 4, 2023, residents cross a temporary bridge near hotels and houses that were damaged by flash floods on the banks of the Swat River in 2022 in Bahrain, a town in the Swat valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer of 2022. The ensuing floods that put a third of the country underwater, damaged two million homes and killed more than 1,700 people. Credit: Aamir Qureshi / AFP via Getty Images

Deep Rifts at UN Loss and Damage Talks Cast a Shadow on Upcoming Climate Conference

By Bob Berwyn
Badly damaged buildings are pictured near Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on April 7, 2020, after Tropical Cyclone Harold swept past and hit islands to the north. The cyclone caused $600 million in damage, some 60 percent of the small Pacific island nation's GDP. Credit: PHILIPPE CARILLO/AFP via Getty Images.

Q&A: Rich and Poor Nations Have One More Chance to Come to Terms Over a Climate Change ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”
Sudanese security forces intervene in October 2021 as smoke billows from tyres set on fire by Sudanese students in the city of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, demonstrating against the hikes in bread prices due to low wheat supply following the closure of Sudans' Red Sea port of Port Sudan. Credit: Abdelmonim Madibu/AFP via Getty Images.

How Climate Change Drives Conflict and War Crimes Around the Globe

By Katie Surma
Recently cut timber in a forest near Daniel Boone National Forest. Credit: Jared Hamilton

Most Countries are Falling Short of Their Promises to Stop Cutting Down the World’s Trees

By Georgina Gustin
Aerial view of Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. The country is currently facing claims through the investor-state dispute settlements process, or ISDS, from three foreign mining companies seeking more than $30 billion, twice its gross domestic product.Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

A Shadowy Corner of International Law Is Threatening Climate Action, U.N. Expert Warns

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Katie Surma
The photo posted on Twitter on July 22, 2020 purporting to show hundreds of brightly illuminated Chinese ships fishing illegally.

A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat

By Ian Urbina
Farm workers weigh jalapeño peppers after a day of work in San Francisco de Conchos, Chihuahua in August 2023. Many farm workers in the Delicias region are Rarámuri from the Sierra Tarahumara.

Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times    
In a new papal exhortation on climate change issued in advance of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis challenged U.N. negotiators to strengthen the agreement they reached in Paris in 2015, to include “binding forms of energy transition that meet three conditions: that they be efficient, obligatory and readily monitored.” Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images.

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers
“Aluminum has a really big and positive role to play in the shift to clean energy and transportation and in creating a strong U.S. industry and jobs. But to make good on that promise, aluminum producers really need to reduce pollution and start modernizing and operating under updated rules so that there's less harm to people, the environment and the climate.” —Nadia Steinzor, Environmental Integrity Project. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous

By Phil McKenna
As climate change brings record heat to U.S. cities and Baltimore residents try their best to stay cool, the state of Maryland works to meet its own ambitious emissions reduction goals to help counter the climate crisis. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images.

Why Maryland Is Struggling to Meet Its Own Aggressive Climate Goals

By Aman Azhar
Workers install solar panels at the Double Black Diamond solar farm near Springfield, a 593-megawatt project that will produce clean energy for the city of Chicago. Credit: Rich Saal/Provided.

Illinois’ Signature Climate Law Has Been Slow to Fulfill Promises for Clean Energy and Jobs

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times, and Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a press conference in July 2021 urging the inclusion of the Civilian Climate Corps., a climate jobs program, in the budget reconciliation bill. Congress refused, and the corps languished, until President Biden announced on Wednesday that he would create it working through multiple agencies. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Biden Finds Funds to Launch an ‘American Climate Corps’ With Existing Authority Congress Has Given to Agencies

By Marianne Lavelle

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