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Australia and Canada can learn from each other on climate if we separate action from declaration | Rosa Galvez
Climate integrity means being honest about the gap between emissions reduced on paper and emissions reduced in the atmosphereCanada and Australia are both democracies built on abu…
Meet the Mechanical Engineer Running to Regulate the Texas Oil and Gas Industry
Jon Rosenthal, a Democratic state representative from Houston, is facing off against Bo French, a far-right Republican culture warrior from Fort Worth, for a seat on the commissio…
Coral Reefs Can Recover But Relentless Marine Heat Waves Won’t Let Them
In 1998, unusually hot ocean temperatures stressed corals worldwide, causing them to expel the microalgae living within their tissues that normally nourish the tiny animals and gi…
How Grassroots Opposition to a New Asphalt Plant Was Infiltrated by an Outside Operative
CLEMMONS, N.C.—The man came out of nowhere, but he seemed to be on their side. Dozens of residents of Clemmons, a small village south of Winston-Salem, were alarmed about a propo…
Hurricanes Routinely Threaten the Texas Coast. But Mass Evacuations Pose Risks of Their Own.
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. GALVESTON, Texas—Maya Hart’s han…
Florida Proposes Stronger Protections for Sloths After Dozens Died at a Tourism Attraction
Florida’s wildlife agency has proposed new rules to strengthen protections for sloths imported into the state, four months after an Inside Climate News investigation revealed doze…
This summer was hot. August shattered global heat records
Scientists say that August was the hottest month ever recorded globally. In the U.S., summer temperatures also shattered heat records.
Chemours to Pay $455 Million for Fayetteville Works Contamination
This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and CityView NC, part of The Assembly Local Network. North Carolina and a handful of local governments agreed to settle w…
How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit
Natural gas is fading from California’s electricity mix more quickly than seemed possible just a few years ago. The state hit its peak for gas-fired electricity in 2014 and has fa…
NHS reports busiest ever summer as heatwaves drive up hospital admissions
Health secretary says extreme demand no longer confined to winter as service in England warns of knock-on effectsThe NHS faced the “busiest summer in its history” as the UK experi…
Pennsylvania Is Building More EV Chargers. Will Drivers Come?
As I drove 500 miles across Pennsylvania and back in a little blue Chevrolet Bolt EV, a charging station near a dumpster at the back of a Pizza Hut parking lot proved to be a conv…
Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper saysRising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are t…
Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gainsPinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here is…
August was joint-hottest month ever recorded globally
Temperatures reached 1.65C above preindustrial levels, months before El Niño system reaches full strengthAugust was the joint-hottest month ever recorded around the world, with gl…
Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides
An ambitious bill to keep toxic “forever chemicals” off California produce lost its teeth after the chemical and agricultural industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobby…
Utahns Support Protecting National Monuments That Trump Downsized
Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Dona…
The US Wants Minerals from South America. Its Environmental Defenders Fear What Comes Next.
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in South America this week, he carried a familiar message: The United States wants access to minerals and an expanded military presence…
5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into China’s Massive Overseas Investments
For more than a decade, the Chinese government has overseen a trillion-dollar building spree across the globe, helping construct and finance a vast network of mines, ports, railwa…
Peter’s farm is on ‘flood country’. As Australia’s sea levels rise, safe land is vanishing and costs are huge
Climate Council forecasts more than 267,000 coastal properties will be damaged by flooding by 2100, costing hundreds of billions of dollarsGet our breaking news email, free app or…
Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis?
In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt t…
For Many New Yorkers, Home Is No Escape From the Heat
New York City is getting hotter, and for some residents, staying cool can be a matter of life and death. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has declared at least three heat emergencies this sum…
NOAA Fisheries Takes A ‘Sharp Turn Away From Science’
In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries sc…
Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisisZack Polanski will challenge Andy Burnham’s government to publis…
Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces
The European Prize for Urban Public Space’s shortlist highlights projects helping people cope with climate crisisIn the words of Joni Mitchell, the planners of many urban centres …