Environment & Health

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

Dam Useless: Barriers Prevent a Migratory Fish from Reproducing

By Lauren Dalban

‘Heat Batteries’ Leave Some City Blocks Scorched

By Lauren Dalban

Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.

By Liza Gross

Norway Reopens Annual Whale Hunt Despite Pressure to End Commercial Whaling

By Teresa Tomassoni

A Hunger Strike Ends, but an ‘Unreasonable’ Woman’s Battle Against Corporate Polluters Marches On

Story and photos by Dylan Baddour

After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises

By Lauren Dalban

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

By Keerti Gopal

Severe Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma

By Keerti Gopal

California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops

By Liza Gross

Zeldin Celebrates Endangerment Finding Repeal With Climate Skeptics

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

By Bob Berwyn

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

By Dana Drugmand, Nathaniel Eisen

Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters

By Nicole Williams

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

By Lisa Sorg