stLouISTCountries pledged to slash methane — but they’re still replacing coal with natural gas
A new report argues that countries shutting down coal plants should ‘leapfrog’ to renewables.
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How California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmare
And why the shrinking lake might be key to meeting America's clean energy goals.
Report: Eliminating waste is a climate solution
Zero-waste practices like composting and production cuts could cut global waste emissions by 84 percent.
What’s protected under the Clean Water Act? The Supreme Court is about to decide.
Sackett v. EPA could roll back protections for more than 50 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
Unstable Ground
How thawing permafrost threatens a Biden-supported plan to drill in Alaska's Arctic.
Will the Farm Bill be the next big climate package? It depends on the midterm elections.
Republicans have already vowed to strip climate funding from the bill.
‘We can’t recycle our way out’
From chemical recycling to plant-based alternatives, scientists size up the most promising solutions to plastic pollution.
Chevron’s commercials just got the ‘Don’t Look Up’ treatment
What do cooing babies and frolicking elephants have to do with oil companies? Exactly.
Hurricane Ian was a powerful storm. Real estate developers made it a catastrophe.
'Dredge-and-fill' created thousands of homes vulnerable to storm surge.
Every two days, a land defender is killed. Most are Indigenous.
A new report finds Indigenous people in Brazil, Colombia and the Philippines often face the highest rates of violence.
EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs
The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.
Nord Stream gas leaks may be biggest ever, with warning of ‘large climate risk’
‘Colossal amount’ of leaked methane, twice initial estimates, is equivalent to third of Denmark’s annual CO2 emissions or 1.3 million cars.
‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills
Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds.
As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, Florida faces historic storm surge
The Category 4 storm pushed walls of water several feet high into low-lying cities from Sarasota to Fort Myers.
In Brazil’s presidential election, the fate of the Amazon is at stake
Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2.
‘A much-needed step’: The EPA creates a new environmental justice office
The initiative will give hard-hit communities $3 billion to address pollution.
The huge expansion of oil pipelines is endangering the climate, report says
Thousands of miles of new pipelines planned around world show ‘an almost deliberate failure to meet climate goals.’
‘Nature-rinsing’: How polluters use the beauty of nature to clean up their image
Ever wonder why ads show SUVs dashing through the forest?
Tampa Bay isn’t safe from any hurricane — especially not Ian
The coastal region is severely flood-prone, even with smaller storms.