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Third day of UN talks begin but leaders of many big polluting nations absentAfter a couple of hosts provide us a bit of background on Antalya (founded in 200BC, apparently) it is time to hear from António Guterres, the outgoing secretary-general of the UN, who will probably not b
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter. After barely three years on the road, Tesla is planning to kick the Cybertruck to the curb after flagging sales. Elon Musk announced on Friday that the company would wind down production ne
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering with U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman. Congressional committees originate legislation and oversight investigations, and under the seniority s
FAIRFAX, Iowa—Nearly 50 people gathered at the American Legion Post on a July evening to learn about a proposed natural gas plant less than three miles from town. Seated in folding chairs, they pulled out their phones and typed responses to a simple question: How are you feeling?
Los votantes latinos están preocupados por el cambio climático y se encuentran entre los más confiados en su capacidad para generar cambios políticos.
If you’ve ever looked for a homegrown replacement for the imported olive, canola and palm oils that typically fill grocery store aisles and home kitchens, there’s a small but growing alternative. A network of sustainability enthusiasts is now making oil from a resource native to
UN-backed report finds even temporary rises above Paris agreement target could cause harm to glaciers and polar ice sheetsEarth’s icy regions face such dangerous melting that global heating should be brought back below 1C after an inevitable period of overshooting global temperat
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Plastics have been widely adopted in all sorts of products from food packaging to toys to medical devices, in part because they were believ
When BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as wel
Peat fires are burning across the country, smothering one of the world's most populated countries in smoke.
The path to Trump's 'Arctic dominance' goes through this Alaskan island
Lula’s reelection kept an ally in the presidency, but a rightward shift in Congress leaves Indigenous leaders facing more battles.
In this week’s newsletter: what to expect of the next two weeks at the critical UN climate talks. Plus, this week’s most important reads• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe world has again convened for Cop, the annual ritual to confront humanity’s gr
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The organization created the Reforestation Hub tool to help people understand which land is suitable for reforestation and how planting trees can benefit the climate.
Kerry decries president for ceding clean-energy dominance to China and says climate crisis still a key issue for votersDonald Trump is the “biggest loser we’ve seen in a long time” for scrapping action on the climate crisis and ceding the clean energy race to China, former US sec
Proponents argue ocean carbon removal is necessary to counteract the effects of the climate crisis but critics say more research is needed A cluster of candy cane-striped smoke stacks dots the horizon of Tufts Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada. Deep in the briny depths of Halifax harbo
The Democrats’ sweeping success at the national level in last week’s midterms was mirrored in major swings at the state level as well. In Pennsylvania, where Democrats flipped the state Senate, the party will control both chambers of the legislature and the governor’s office for
If all goes to plan, I will spend a grand total of zero dollars on an electrification project that could have cost me well over $10,000.
How the ideas behind the Green New Deal got an update for the Trump era.
New research shows that a quarter of nearly 1,000 cactus species could lose at least 80 percent of their habitat by 2100, due to relentless droughts.
Democrats have finally managed to gain footing in Ohio’s halls of power — a shift that bodes well for clean energy in a state that’s become particularly hostile toward solar and wind. Last week, voters ended Republicans’ 15-year-long trifecta in Ohio, picking Democrat Amy Acton t
San Francisco Bay Area regulators have finalized a long-awaited rule that limits pollution from residential water heaters. In 2023, the Bay Area Air District board passed first-in-the-nation regulations setting zero-nitrogen-oxides (NO x ) emissions standards on new home water
Failure to cut emissions will ‘consign humanity to disasters they are unable to adapt to’, report saysThe world is heading for an “irrecoverable overshoot” of global temperature thresholds that will plunge billions of people into disastrous climate impacts because governments hav
