stLouISTWho’s responsible for waste? A Q&A about the ‘conspiracy’ of overconsumption.
The producer of Netflix’s “Buy Now!” says companies should be accountable for the trash they generate.
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Michigan wants to fast-track renewable development. Local townships are suing.
About 80 townships and counties are challenging the state's Public Service Commission over how it plans to implement a new permitting-reform law.
How to take climate change out of the culture wars
What if the resistance to climate science is not really about science at all?
At COP29, new rules for carbon markets made them even more controversial
Environmental groups say weak guidelines risk facilitating “cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff.”
‘We lost’: How COP29 ended with a deal that made the whole world unhappy
Under pressure to step up global climate aid, the world’s richest countries secured nothing less than a diplomatic coup in Baku.
Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind energy — but it might not be easy
A giant wind farm off the Louisiana coast will be hard to derail.
How the world gave up on 1.5 degrees
A decade after the Paris Agreement, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton trace how we've kept on with business as usual.
How a dwindling helium supply is impacting public land management
A new BLM plan for western Colorado makes a priority of helium production, worrying environmentalists.
Mississippi River towns pilot new insurance model to help with disaster response
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
Some towns still don’t have drinkable water months after Hurricane Helene. A full recovery could take years.
The flooding that devastated western North Carolina during Hurricane Helene knocked out dozens of rural water systems.
Where did all the climate voters go?
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump, but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
Democrats and Republicans can't seem to agree over what belongs in the nation's leading agricultural policy.
Mass protests against New Zealand’s effort to weaken Māori rights — and hurt the planet
"This is about the protection of all that we hold dear."
As a COP29 deal on fossil fuels falters, the blame game begins
With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition.
Can Lula still save the Amazon?
The power imbalance in Brazil's government keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat.
How do you define climate adaptation? Here are 10,000 ways.
At COP29, a decade-long effort to realize the ambitions of the Paris Agreement could give the world a way to measure the success of climate adaptation.
How communities are giving new life to polluted land
Cleaning up contaminated land is a struggle. Meet some of the community leaders who are taking matters into their own hands.
Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse
A new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power.
The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?