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Maine’s Shellfish Harvesters Are Caught up in Climate-Related Closures

Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.

By Ben Seal

A shellfish harvester pours out small littleneck clams from a net at the Winnegance oyster farm on the New Meadows River in West Bath, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images
Fred the handyman at the Shiloh Commons installs a new water filter in a residence January 21, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. The city's water supply had been contaminated by lead after a switch from Lake Huron to the Flint river as a source in April 2014. Credit: Sarah Rice/Getty Images

Michigan’s Other Water Crisis: PFAS’s Prevalence in Private Wells

By K.R. Callaway

Plant Barry’s toxic coal ash lagoon is more than a mile across at some points and is surrounded by the Mobile River, located just feet from its edge. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk

By Lee Hedgepeth

Zak and Lena Kendall perform onstage during GoldenOak’s album release show at Portland House of Music and Events. Credit: Ryan Flanagan

A Maine Folk Band Finds Its Voice in a Warming World

By Ryan Krugman

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

A view of the south branch of the Chicago River with downtown Chicago in the background. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

By Amber X. Chen

COP28 in Dubai unfolded amid spectacle and conspicuous wealth in 2023, as fossil-fuel power dominated the setting of the world’s largest climate summit and global emissions continued to rise.

Scenes From an Unfolding Climate Drama

Story and photos by Bob Berwyn

An aerial view of Manville, N.J., after Hurricane Ida causes flash flooding in the area on Sept. 2, 2021. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model

By Emilie Lounsberry

From left: Scott Vlaun, Renee Igo, Tamra Benson and Ania Wright talk around a table at the Center for an Ecology-Based Economy in Norway, Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

Nonprofit Center Works with Rural Maine Towns to Prepare for and Protect Against Extreme Weather

By Sydney Cromwell

Love Sanchez, founder of Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend, stands at McGee Beach near downtown Corpus Christi in 2022. Credit: Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

A grizzly boar walks through the meadow near White Creek in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Could Rescinding The Roadless Rule Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies?

By Jake Bolster

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a Ford Pro Accelerate event on Sept. 3 in Detroit. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

As the Whitmer Administration Enters Its Final Year, Environmental Advocates Lament Wasted Opportunities

By Tom Perkins

Yvonne Sorovacu (right), Hannah Hohman (center) and Jay Beal monitor a creek for signs of contamination from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa.

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways

Story by Kiley Bense, photos by Scott Goldsmith

An Ecuadorian squirrel monkey in the trees of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Countries Want Debt Relief for Conservation. Is China Ready to Play a Role?

By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin

A truck for Noble Environmental, the parent company of Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, Pa., drives down a road on a rainy day. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

EPA civil servants from the Boston area participate in a demonstration at Angell Memorial Square on March 25, 2025. Credit: Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Focus: Delay, Rescind, Dismantle Environmental and Health Protections

By Liza Gross

Diane Wilson outside the Formosa Plastics plant in Point Comfort, Texas, in November 2021. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP ia Getty Images

Diane Wilson Takes on Another Plastics Plant in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

Jupiter Powers battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The Texas Power Grid Will Get a Boost from Batteries This Winter

By Arcelia Martin

A view of the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Belle Vernon, visible from a strip mall parking lot. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Tracking Oil and Gas Waste in Pennsylvania Is Still a ‘Logistical Mess’

By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous

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