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Steam rises from a cooling tower at Clairton Coke Works, one of the world’s largest producers coke, in Pennsylvania. Credit: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News

Adding up the Public Health Costs of Using Coal to Make Steel

By Kiley Bense

Blooms of cyanobacteria, like the one pictured in California’s Lake Elsinore, spiked to record levels in the Finger Lakes of New York this year, endangering swimmers, dogs, birds and public drinking water. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Toxic Blooms in New York’s Finger Lakes Set Record in 2024

By Peter Mantius

The Rio Grande winds through the Chihuahuan Desert in far west Texas. Diversions for agriculture and cities have reduced the flow by at least 70 percent compared to historical flow levels. Credit: Omar Ornelas

Holding Out Hope On the Drying Rio Grande

By Martha Pskowski

Chicago city code required homes to install lead pipes up until 1986, resulting in the city having approximately 400,000 lead service lines. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Gives Chicago Decades to Replace Lead Pipes, Leaving Communities at Risk

By Nina B. Elkadi

The first panels are erected for the “Bellwether District” as construction begins in April at the site of the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery. Credit: HRP Group

Developer of Former Philadelphia Refinery Site Finalizes Pact With Community Activists

By Jon Hurdle

An aerial view of Warrior Met's Blue Creek Mine No. 1 construction site. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Mine Expansion Could Test Biden Policy on Private Extraction of Publicly Owned Coal

By Lee Hedgepeth

In 2023, a North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia with rope lodged in its mouth. Credit: Georgia DNR/NOAA Fisheries

The Futures of Right Whales and Lobstermen Are Entangled. Could High-Tech Gear Help Save Them Both?

By Kiley Price

The Conquistador Apartments in Brownsville has central air and shaded walkways. Still, the apartment occupied by Joaquin Galvan, 82, his 78-year-old sister and his 60-year old daughter grew hot enough to put them at grave risk, given their chronic medical conditions.

Chronic Health Problems Amplify Heat Risk in the Rio Grande Valley

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Chris Lee

The controversial Pinyon Plain uranium mine continues to operate within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument on Aug. 27 near Grand Canyon, Ariz. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In Inaugural Tribal Energy Summit, Carbon Capture, Critical Minerals and Sovereignty Take Center Stage

By Jake Bolster

Effigy Mounds National Monument museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks along coir logs in the Sny Magill Unit of the park along the Mississippi River near Clayton, Iowa. Credit: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On the Wisconsin-Iowa Border, the Mississippi River Is Eroding Sacred Indigenous Mounds

By Madeline Heim and Frank Vaisvilas, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Terry Wilson stands in the hallway of his home while he and family members work to remove valuables from the flooded house in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29 in Old Fort, N.C. Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

After Hurricane Helene, Therapists Dispense ‘Psychological First Aid’

By Nina Dietz

A Ukrainian tank fires at pro-Russian forces in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Russia and pro-separatist forces have controlled the region since 2014, eight years before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor. Credit: Courtesy of Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit

By Ken McLaughlin, The War Horse

Mark Carrington exits his golf cart to look out on Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Desert Center, Calif., on May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

As Solar Booms in the California Desert, Locals Feel ‘Overburdened’

By Wyatt Myskow

Smoke emits from the James H. Miller Jr. Electrical Generating Plant in Jefferson County, Ala. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Plant Tops US Greenhouse Gas Polluter List for 9th Straight Year

By Dennis Pillion

A mold filled room sits in an abandoned house in west Lumberton, N.C. on Oct. 16, 2018. Two years after Hurricane Matthew, Florence damaged homes in the same neighborhood. Many residents never returned. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

ReBuild NC Has a Deficit of Over $150 Million With 1,600 People Still Displaced by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence

By Lisa Sorg

Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo has been a park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park for two decades, fighting to protect the park from extractive industries. He is facing legal battles and constant threats of physical danger for his work as an environmental defender. Credit: Moses Sawasawa/CliDef

New Report Condemns Increasing Violence and Legal Retaliation Against Environmental Activists

By Keerti Gopal, Mathilde Augustin

Alizee Zimmermann applies antibiotic paste to a star coral affected by Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in Turks and Caicos. Credit: Patricia Guardiola Slattery

Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos to Rebuild Reefs of the Future

By Teresa Tomassoni

Firefighters arrive to extinguish a wildfire on Sept. 24 in Concepcion, Bolivia. Credit: Rodrigo Urzagasti/AFP via Getty Images

Bolivia Has National Rights of Nature Laws. Why Haven’t They Been Enforced?

By Katie Surma

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