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A landscape in Zambia 12 weeks after a Chinese copper mine spilled toxic waste laced with heavy metals, including lead, arsenic and uranium. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

Chinese Mining Firm Downplays Toxic Waste Spill as Residents Reel From Impacts

By Katie Surma

Is AI Throwing Climate Change Under the Bus?

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Machinery transfers coal at a port in China’s Chongqing municipality on April 20. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An aerial view shows a natural gas processing plant under construction in Pennsylvania’s Washington County on Oct. 26, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense, Dan Gearino

A view of the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 2016, where natural gas had been leaking from the Aliso Canyon storage facility since Oct. 23, 2015. Credit: Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images

Toxic Plumes from Aliso Canyon Gas Blowout Harmed Babies, Study Shows

By Liza Gross

Eshaan Vakil (left), an organizer with Climate Defiance, and Barbara Sheehan, with Sunrise Movement, are two of the activists who disrupted a panel discussion with Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub at a Harvard climate symposium on Friday. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Climate Activists Disrupt Fossil Fuel Executive at Harvard University Symposium

By Phil McKenna

Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Duane Brankley stands outside his home in Chesterfield County, Va. Credit: Charles Paullin/Inside Climate News

Dominion’s Proposed Peaker Plant Flouts Environmental Justice, Community Says

By Charles Paullin

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Sen. Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Industry Groups’ Influence on Endangerment Finding Repeal

By Aidan Hughes

Plastic pellets, known as nurdles, coat the ground at the site of a train derailment near ExxonMobil’s Baytown facility in Texas on Dec. 6, 2024. Credit: Rebekah F. Ward/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Communities Around the World Find Plastic Pellets in Their Local Waterways

By Lauren Dalban

Madrid’s Emergency Medical Service workers transfer a prisoner from Valdemoro prison to Infanta Elena Hospital after he suffered heat stroke amid a heat wave in Spain. Credit: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images

Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows

By Bob Berwyn

People gather for a protest against the disappearance of Mapuche leader and environmental defender Julia Chuñil in front of La Moneda Palace on April 8 in Santiago, Chile. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

An Average Week in 2024: Three Environmental Defenders Murdered or Disappeared

By Katie Surma

The construction site of a 65-acre data center on May 13 in Aurora, Colo. The new facility could consume as much electricity as 176,000 homes. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Riding the High From Data Centers, the Grid Cannot Kick Its Gas Habit

By Deep Vakil

A worker drinks water from a botijo, a Spanish traditional earthenware drinking jug, to fight the heat in the midst of a heat wave in Madrid on Aug. 9, 2023. Credit: Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images

World’s Largest Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers Are Responsible for About Half the Intensity of Recent Heat Waves, New Study Shows

By Dana Drugmand

A thick haze blankets New York City as smoke from Canadian wildfires impacts air quality on August 5. Credit: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images

‘It’s Never Good!’: A Street-Level Look at New York City’s Air Quality

By Lauren Dalban

Pamela McElwee speaks during the 11th session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Plenary in December 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia. Credit: Kiara Worth/Earth Negotiations Bulletin

An Energy Department Climate Change Report ‘Completely Ignored’ Adaptation, Rutgers Professor Says

By Anna Mattson

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright walks outside of the White House on Aug. 19 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Top US Energy Official Lobbies for Fossil Fuels in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Des Moines River from Prospect Park in Des Moines, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

House Bill Amending the Clean Water Act Could Mean Dirtier Water Nationwide—And Especially in Iowa

By Anika Jane Beamer

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