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Gristby Kate Yoder11d ago
Deirdre Macnab was reading her local newspaper this spring when she learned that Rio Blanco County, where she lives in northwest Colorado, had taken the side of oil companies in a major lawsuit...
Gristby Frey Blake-Pijogge11d ago
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. After retiring from a long career as a conservation officer with the Canadian government, Derrick Pottle devoted himself to guiding...
Gristby Joseph Winters12d ago
Last week, another federal judge blocked New York’s so-called “climate superfund law,” the state’s attempt to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate-related damages linked to their activities.
Gristby Anila Yoganathan12d ago
In Omaha, Nebraska, during the recent early September heat wave when temps hit the mid-90s Fahrenheit and lows stayed in the 70s, Pat Wilson-Johnson came to the Salvation Army’s North Corps...
Gristby Jake Bittle12d ago
If you scroll down on the list of “Carbon Majors,” the 178 producers that are responsible for most of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, you will eventually get to a company called Continental...
Gristby Kate Yoder13d ago
After returning to office last January, President Donald Trump made it clear to America’s universities that federal money comes with strings attached.
Gristby Benton Graham13d ago
The first thing Brightline wants you to know about its bankruptcy is that the trains will keep running.
Gristby Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco14d ago
Every year, climate disasters force millions of people to leave their homes. In the aftermath of floods, fires, and droughts, they face the challenge of finding a new place to rebuild their lives.
Gristby Leia Larsen14d ago
It didn’t take long for prospectors to stake their claims on land in southeast Utah that was previously protected in Bears Ears National Monument.
Gristby Christian Schwägerl, Yale E36014d ago
In a modern five-story building in the center of Hamburg, Germany, technicians are preparing to install several new “racks” — gray metal casings that hold computing hardware — alongside the scores...
Gristby Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder15d ago
Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county commissioners were about to do, he said to the packed courthouse, would violate America’s founding ideals.
Gristby Kate Yoder17d ago
By now, you’ve seen the headlines, and there’s more of them every day: It’s “jaw-dropping.” It’s poised to make global warming worse. California has just declared a statewide state of emergency.
Gristby Matt Simon17d ago
You are about to time-travel. Off the Pacific coast of South America, the band of warm water known as El Niño is mutating into a freak of nature.
Gristby Austin Corona17d ago
Senators are looking toward the Capitol doors as they prepare to head home and campaign for the midterms.
Gristby Jake Bittle17d ago
President Donald Trump’s second term has been a nightmare for global cooperation on climate change.
Gristby Anita Hofschneider18d ago
Leevin Camacho was brushing his teeth one day last fall when his mother called. The water is contaminated, she said.
Gristby Kate Yoder18d ago
Last year was a tough time for anyone who studies climate change for a living. The United States, once respected around the world for its sprawling investments in science, suddenly reversed course.
Gristby Joseph Lee18d ago
Indigenous lands from Canada to Ecuador to Nepal are increasingly being hit by catastrophic storms, fires, and floods.
Gristby Stefania D'Ignoti19d ago
Giorgia Caruso always imagined her children one day inheriting the farm her family has tended for three generations. Her daughters would do more than produce organic meat and dairy.
Gristby Joseph Winters19d ago
Earlier this year, ocean conservation advocates celebrated what seemed like a major milestone: 10 percent of the Earth’s oceans had been officially designated as protected marine protected areas.
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