It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state. But EV makers are still forging ahead. | Continue reading
Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end. | Continue reading
Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come. | Continue reading
Scientists say it will take more than early warning systems and cooling centers to keep people safe. | Continue reading
Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop. | Continue reading
In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awaited rule. | Continue reading
Flash flooding in the Arizona tourist destination was probably triggered by compounding climate factors, such as drought and warming in Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading
The president is facing a shortage of refining capacity, and more Venezuelan oil isn't going to help. | Continue reading
In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens operations, and a younger generation chooses not to farm. | Continue reading
From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations. | Continue reading
The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability. | Continue reading
Here's how the fabric went from a "miracle" fiber to TikTok slang for fake. | Continue reading
The funding will go toward researching geologic hydrogen, a carbon-free energy source buried beneath the state that could clean up heavy-emitting industries like transportation. | Continue reading
The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. | Continue reading
The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. | Continue reading
Researchers are just discovering this troubling consequence of climate change, but they still don't know why it happens. | Continue reading
The new mayor wants to invest in coastal resilience, but he will have to decide which areas of the city to protect. | Continue reading
Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution. | Continue reading
The state’s lawsuit claims the federal government’s plan for the river could strip Las Vegas of two-thirds of its water supply. | Continue reading
New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own. | Continue reading
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys. | Continue reading
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys. | Continue reading
Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness. | Continue reading
Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness. | Continue reading
Emissions from agriculture are trending up, but experts say progress must continue even as we blow past global deadlines. | Continue reading
Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about. | Continue reading
Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG. | Continue reading
Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG. | Continue reading
In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation. | Continue reading
Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises. | Continue reading
The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it. | Continue reading
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading
The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading
But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too. | Continue reading
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading
Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading
More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them. | Continue reading
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings. | Continue reading
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. | Continue reading
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading
Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works. | Continue reading
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood. | Continue reading
Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards. | Continue reading
The proposal would repeal the Roadless Rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading
The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading
The $8B Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership — and faces an uncertain future in Washington. | Continue reading
The proposal to replace an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes still needs state approval. Tribal nations say the federal review violates treaty rights. | Continue reading