stLouISTIt’s official: Larger, more frequent wildfires are here
Fires scorched the country in March. Is ‘wildfire season’ a thing of the past?
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Switching to zero-emission cars and trucks could save more than 100,000 lives over the next three decades
The American Lung Association report also estimates $1.2 trillion savings in health care costs
Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.
Trees are great at capturing warming gases, but mass-planting efforts tell a tricky story.
What’s in Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget proposal?
Funding for green jobs, climate research, and environmental justice.
Midwestern lawmakers are trying to replace Russian oil with ethanol
Advocates of increased ethanol sales argue that it could lower fuel prices and help the climate. Both counts are hotly contested.
The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
‘We are unstoppable’: Youth climate strikes return in full force
Students march for their future in 750 cities across the globe
A new report reveals how the Dakota Access Pipeline is breaking the law
Authors say the study could be pivotal in stopping DAPL.
3 years after Hurricane Michael, Black and low-income communities in Florida struggle to rebuild
The first Category 5 storm to hit the U.S. mainland since 1992 caused $18.4 billion in damages in Florida, but advocates say FEMA red tape has slowed recovery for some Panama City residents.
Why the Senate hasn’t made a climate deal yet
Democrats (including Joe Manchin) say they agree on historic climate spending. So what's the holdup?
Sweden approves controversial iron mine on Indigenous Sami land
The proposed mining project has been condemned by the Sami and the United Nations.
Banks promised climate action. Where is it?
Not one of the top 30 financial institutions is following through on its climate pledge, a new report finds.
The next frontier in medicine: Doctors with climate training
Medical schools across the country are increasingly reckoning with the need to teach the intersection of climate change and health.
Study: Every single country is failing the WHO’s new air quality standards
Just 3 percent of the world's cities had an average air quality reading that met WHO standards in 2021.
There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows
54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.
FEMA is giving homeowners money to prepare for floods — or move away
The agency will dole out $60 million from the infrastructure bill to four states hit by Hurricane Ida.
Road salt is imperiling US waterways. States might have a solution.
Crews dump more than 20 million metric tons of salt on US roads each winter. Could 'smart salting' help?
Here’s the ‘energy transition’ needed to stave off climate catastrophe
And it’s not the one oil executives had in mind.
Peak cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. is early again
The harbinger of spring brings joy, but also growing unease over climate change
There is a greener way to mine crypto
It’s worth examining how the many, many “clean” crypto initiatives, currencies, blockchains, and marketplaces for non-fungible tokens actually stack up.