The tiny fragments that tires release into the environment are yet another reason to reduce car use. | Continue reading
The hot, dry conditions, spurred by El Niño, are threatening farmers in a country that produces more coffee and soybeans than any other. | Continue reading
Amid soaring temperatures, Arizona has seen success with utility programs that incentivize people to turn down the AC when the power grid is stressed. | Continue reading
Experts say these shows can help parents talk about a thorny subject — and inspire hope. | Continue reading
"My novel is going to be coming true for the rest of my life." | Continue reading
Citing a rarely used statute, the Minnesota judge dismissed charges against Line 3 pipeline protesters in the name of climate justice. | Continue reading
The pledge, a fourfold increase in the number of heat pumps nationwide, will reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, cut utility bills, and create jobs. | Continue reading
The soil soot is a small-scale solution that climate advocates — and corporations — want more of. | Continue reading
“We are seeing influence in states that basically have none of their own wildfires." | Continue reading
Biden's program is expected to hire 20,000 young people in its first year. | Continue reading
Homeowners nationwide are finding that insurance companies don’t want to cover their properties due to climate risks. The problem will only get worse. | Continue reading
The state has installed a record number of EV fast chargers, but it's still not enough to keep pace with future demand. | Continue reading
This week's Record High newsletter looks at the science of sweating: It may be the pits, it’s the body's best defense against extreme heat. | Continue reading
It's gross. It's sticky. And it's already saved your life. | Continue reading
The regulations could ease demand for mining and jump-start battery recycling worldwide. | Continue reading
"The EV transition must be a just transition that ensures auto workers have a place in the new economy.” | Continue reading
An Estonian oil company planned to produce enough oil in 30 years to spew the equivalent of carbon emissions from 63 coal plants. | Continue reading
Anemones, sponges, and jellyfish are bleaching throughout the Everglades amid record temperatures. It's a troubling sign for Florida Bay and beyond. | Continue reading
A United Nations expert says the world is spending trillions on climate action and only a fraction is going to Indigenous communities. | Continue reading
Many of these refineries are located in and around neighborhoods of color. | Continue reading
Fire officials and landowners have known for years about gaps in Hawaii's firebreaks and fuelbreaks. The problem boils down to money and cooperation. | Continue reading
A new study found significant associations between both long- and short-term exposure to environmental heat during a pregnancy and severe maternal morbidity. | Continue reading
The 600-mile wide storm has weakened, but its impacts in Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are expected to be severe. | Continue reading
For the first time, clean energy tax credits are transferable, and the market for them is surging. | Continue reading
Climate change, politics and crumbling infrastructure were all factors in the horrific death toll from flooding in Libya. | Continue reading
An idea from the past could provide a way to cope with extreme heat. | Continue reading
Car shares not only make EVs more equitable, they reduce the number of vehicles on the road and the resources needed to decarbonize transport. | Continue reading
The federal disaster relief agency has taken heat for steering past resilience funds to whiter, wealthier areas. | Continue reading
A new report finds that Indigenous peoples made up more than a third of those deaths. | Continue reading
Data reveals the division of tree cover along racial and income lines in cities — and can also help them fix it. | Continue reading
As federal agencies prepare to deregulate a transgenic chestnut, Indigenous nations are asserting their rights to access and care for them. | Continue reading
People laboring in brutal temperatures want OSHA to investigate conditions that leave them vulnerable to heat illness and exhaustion. | Continue reading
The World Bank study estimates that the overall cost was $6 trillion in 2019, roughly 7 percent of the world’s economic output. | Continue reading
Agricultural emissions would fall by almost a third. But getting there wouldn't be easy. | Continue reading
A successfully re-routed Southwestern transmission line shows its possible to overcome green energy obstacles. | Continue reading
With scorching temperatures, are we losing our ability to have fun in the sun? | Continue reading
Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. It’s easy to see why. His startup, Rewind, wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year — about 10 percent of what climate scientists deem necessary … | Continue reading
The water in these four unincorporated communities near Lubbock has been undrinkable for years, residents say. They hope to win $3 million in state grants to improve their systems. | Continue reading
There have been 23 “billion-dollar disasters” to date this year, according to a report issued Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. | Continue reading
Plastic credits can help fund waste cleanup, but they can also justify making more plastic. | Continue reading
A new study shows disaster restoration workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, are poorly protected as top firms "pad their pockets by cutting costs." | Continue reading
As hurricanes get stronger, storm surges are bringing saltwater to farmland—and leaving salt there once waters evaporate. | Continue reading
An intensive report card on how the world is doing after the 2015 Paris Agreement has bad news: we're failing on climate change. | Continue reading
Even more areas will face such conditions as the planet continues to warm from fossil fuel combustion. | Continue reading
Our annual list spotlights the people pushing fresh solutions to our planet’s biggest problems. | Continue reading
Mobile homes house 22 million people in the U.S. and investing in them could be a solution to the housing and climate crises | Continue reading
Researchers warn that the lake may disappear in five years if water loss continues at current rates. | Continue reading
So far this year, the rate of deforestation is 48 percent lower than in 2022 and is at levels not seen since 2018. | Continue reading