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How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

In spring and summer, the canopies of oak and beech forest gather into layers of green. Leaves flicker, shaping the flow of light and air. The effect is almost effortless, a shaded world held in balan...

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A Church’s Geothermal Experiment Could Pave the Way for Projects Across New York

A Church’s Geothermal Experiment Could Pave the Way for Projects Across New York

The Rev. Kurt Gerhard stood near the lectern in Christ Church Bronxville. Beneath him, a network of pipes stretched into a nearby parking lot, where boreholes have been drilled hundreds of feet into t...

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Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

PHILLIPS COUNTY, Mont.—The American buffalo—those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States—have joined wind turbines, electric cars and climate researchers i...

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As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

RUTLAND, Vt.—Eighteen years after the first “climate tort” lawsuit was filed, no U.S. plaintiff has collected damages for the harms of global warming. Now, Vermont’s different legal strategy to make f...

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Paramedics for Ecosystems

In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, residents working as “paraecologists” are documenting the biodiversity of their territory – home to endangered species, waterfalls, and medicinal...

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Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Pat Parenteau, an emeritus professor and senior fellow for climate policy...

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Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

Republican state lawmakers want a temporary pause on Virginia’s 32 cent per gallon gas tax to help offset rising prices at the pump resulting from President Donald Trump’s ill-defined and unpopular wa...

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EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

Citing the Trump administration’s promise to “Make America Healthy Again,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a draft list of contaminants maintained...

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Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

FAIRMONT, N.C.—Craig Watts unlocked a small room made of plywood, flipped on the lights and tapped the photos he had taped to the fuse box. Tap, tap, tap. One for every child. Watts, a contract farme...

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. Nancy Sidun has been counseling disaster survivors at a state-run mental health clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii, since just a...

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Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

Florida Power & Light’s profit margins consistently ranked among the highest in the nation over the past five years and topped other utilities’ in 2024 and 2025, with 27 cents of every dollar in reven...

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Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

In announcing one of the largest reorganizations in the 120-year history of the U.S. Forest Service, the Trump administration declared that there would be “no interruption or change” to the agency’s f...

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Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

Federal officials have already traced a path for a border barrier through multiple Texas state parks, according to documents obtained by Inside Climate News. A top Border Patrol official wrote to lead...

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Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

On a recent evening, batteries were the broad shoulders propping up California’s electricity grid. The state got 43 percent of its power from batteries as of 7 p.m. on Sunday, more than double the nex...

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Why Doesn’t Texas, the Leader of Onshore Wind Energy, Have Any Offshore?

Why Doesn’t Texas, the Leader of Onshore Wind Energy, Have Any Offshore?

Texas state officials have led a successful and concerted effort to prevent offshore wind developments in the Gulf. Over the last few years, key leaders whose signatures and support are required to pe...

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Georgia’s New Public Service Commissioner Says She Will Put Affordability and Transparency First

Georgia’s New Public Service Commissioner Says She Will Put Affordability and Transparency First

The Georgia Public Service Commission has approved six rate increases in three years and signed off on a sweeping expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, decisions that have reshaped Georgia’s energy...

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Global Climate Panel Faces Strife, Potential Funding Crunch

At a time when cascading climate shocks are unfolding faster than scientists can track them, the UN’s scientific body that assesses global warming risks and response options is mired in procedural gri...

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The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

On the heels of one of the warmest and driest winters on record, parts of Wyoming show “significant fire potential” this spring and summer, according to a national forecast released on April 1. The U....

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After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling

When former top Environmental Protection Agency official Judith Enck noticed a cavalcade of chemical and plastics industry lobbyists visiting the agency’s Washington headquarters in February, she wond...

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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Talking the Talk on Data Center Regulations. But Will They Walk?

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Talking the Talk on Data Center Regulations. But Will They Walk?

Ask Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, whether Pennsylvania politicians are doing anything about the swelling public concern over data center development in the commonwealth, and it answers confidently. “Ye...

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Water-Use Restrictions Follow Snow Drought and Heat Wave in the Western U.S.

Water-Use Restrictions Follow Snow Drought and Heat Wave in the Western U.S.

Officials were already sounding the alarm bells in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which supplies water for communities as it slowly melts...

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FEMA Skips National Hurricane Conference Amid DHS Shutdown

FEMA Skips National Hurricane Conference Amid DHS Shutdown

ORLANDO, Fla.—A major conference to help communities prepare for hurricane season kicked off Monday without the agency that coordinates federal disaster response. Federal Emergency Management Agency r...

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Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with Inside Climate News. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to h...

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Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

Just after 3 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, a 4.5-foot-long leatherback sea turtle covered her freshly dug nest with sand, sweeping and packing it into place with steady strokes of her flippers just...

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The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

Each strip of wood in Richard Silliboy’s hands started as a year of an ash tree’s life. Silliboy, 79, is a member of the Mi’kmaq tribe and a master basketmaker. His blue eyes are kind and frequently c...

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Toxic Ocean Crisis in Papua New Guinea Sparks Mass Marine Die-Off and Public Health Emergency

Toxic Ocean Crisis in Papua New Guinea Sparks Mass Marine Die-Off and Public Health Emergency

It started in December, when dead fish began washing ashore New Ireland—a mountainous island in Papua New Guinea’s New Ireland Province, flanked by the Pacific Ocean and the Bismarck Sea. At first, j...

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Earth’s Energy Imbalance

“Earth is being pushed beyond its limits while every key climate indicator is flashing red,” warned U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres after the release of the latest State of the Global Climate...

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Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

For four years, battles over private property rights have gridlocked state legislatures across the Midwest and stalled plans for a pipeline to transport liquified carbon dioxide from ethanol plants in...

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The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Peter Brannen, the author of “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything...

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Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

The Trump administration is turning to the nuclear option on endangered-species protections in the name of national security. A rarely tapped panel nicknamed the “God Squad” will meet Tuesday to discu...

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USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

When the Trump administration announced plans last year to rescind a rule limiting roadbuilding and timber harvests on millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, officials called the repeal...

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Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado, Boulder. BROWNSVILLE, Texas—An experiment unfolding at the southernmost tip of this state could irrevocably change the iconic Rio G...

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Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News, Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Illinois is in the midst of a public health crisis. Nearly 1.5...

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Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern...

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27 noticias recientes

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

A Church’s Geothermal Experiment Could Pave the Way for Projects Across New York

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

As Vermont Defends Its Law to Make Fossil Fuel Firms Pay for Climate Adaptation, the Bill Is Already Coming Due

Paramedics for Ecosystems

Why Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Is Not Like the God Squads Before It

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Florida Power & Light Profit Margins Top Other Utilities’ Nationwide, Report Says

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes As Risky Wildfire Season Looms

Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

Why Doesn’t Texas, the Leader of Onshore Wind Energy, Have Any Offshore?

Georgia’s New Public Service Commissioner Says She Will Put Affordability and Transparency First

Global Climate Panel Faces Strife, Potential Funding Crunch

The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Are Talking the Talk on Data Center Regulations. But Will They Walk?

Water-Use Restrictions Follow Snow Drought and Heat Wave in the Western U.S.

FEMA Skips National Hurricane Conference Amid DHS Shutdown

Blasting Begins For Border Wall On Cherished New Mexico Mountain

Scientists Deploy First Satellite Tag on a Leatherback Sea Turtle in Ecuador to Better Reveal Gaps in Ocean Protection

The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

Toxic Ocean Crisis in Papua New Guinea Sparks Mass Marine Die-Off and Public Health Emergency

Earth’s Energy Imbalance

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

The 4-Billion-Year Perspective to Understanding Earth’s Current Climate Crisis

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

Border Communities Remain in the Dark About Federal Government’s Billion-Dollar Buoy Project

Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

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