Environment

Three Greenhouse Gases, Three All-time Highs

By David Gelles The extreme weather. The melting glaciers. The weirdly warm oceans. They’re all the product of global warming, which is being driven by the release of the three most important heat-trapping gases: carbon…


Inside the Fight to Stop South Texas LNG

By Maria Gallucci “We don’t have exploding refineries here, and we want to keep it that way,” Hinojosa says from her office in downtown Brownsville, on a stretch of semi-vacant storefronts just blocks from the…


2024 Is the Climate Election

Jour­nalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…


Educate More Girls, Eat Less Meat

Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University research­ers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…


A Warming Planet, Pathogens, and Diseases

By Zoya Teirstein People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals—and the diseases they carry…


Make Polluters Pay

Vermont Law Makes Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Impacts Interview by Paloma Beltran Vermont’s House and Senate have approved a bill that would make fossil fuel companies financially liable for their carbon pollution and…


L.A. Captures 96 Bn Gallons of Stormwater

By Ian James Heavy rains this winter and spring sent torrential flows down local creeks and rivers, and L.A. County managed to capture and store a significant amount of that stormwater, officials say. To be…


Keeping Cool in 100° Heat Without AC

By Èlia Borràs If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the…



Haw River Tribunal Puts a Pipeline on Trial

By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…