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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.

New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.

Boeing has almost completed the demolition of five buildings at its infamous Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California, even as concerns mount among nearby families about potential health harms. The buildings at the former Rocketdyne facility—where one of the worst nuc

​As world leaders struggle to meet deadlines to halt nature loss set four years ago, a rare leopard in host country Armenia offers a symbol of what is at stakeDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Armenian capital Yerevan is chock-a-block right now with

Students across Kalimantan and Sumatra took to the streets to demand government accountability for the wildfires and toxic haze blanketing the region. While Indonesia regularly battles wildfires in the dry season, these blazes are the most intense in more than a decade and exacer

The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-F

Program founded by tomato growers has some of the strongest US worker protections – and its approach is being emulated by other groups“It’s the kind of heat that makes you feel like you’re being dehydrated, like your skin is drying out,” said Lucas Benitez, after harvesting water

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity. Atrazine is the second-most widely used weed killer in the U.S. after glyphosate, wh

On a misty and breezy morning last fall, Marc Hamric, a North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries veteran, and two other technicians were conducting field work in Turnagain Bay, a remote area near Cedar Island. They had brought their boat ashore, but because the water was so ro

The radical Stern report showed that a low-carbon future is also good economics. But it seems that capitalism needs a reminderSaving the only planet we have makes good economic sense. There is, after all, no money to be made on a dead Earth. There may be costs involved now, but t

Peat fires are burning across the country, smothering one of the world's most populated countries in smoke.

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Donald Trump ran for his second term promising to “make America affordable again.” Two years later, the president’s war with Iran has his constituents paying through the nose for gasoline and diesel. In fact, per-perso

In less than two weeks, U.S. Senate leaders plan to take an initial vote on the divisive permitting reform bill aimed at easing regulatory barriers that can delay energy projects. As the date nears, some of the country’s leading environmental groups are ramping up their oppositio

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Candidates for Alabama’s second-highest office took the stage Wednesday for what was the first major-party debate for a statewide office since 2010, the year Republicans took the reins of government from Democrats for the first time in the modern era.  In a debat

Las mujeres embarazadas de las colonias de Arizona viven cerca de campos fumigados con pesticidas y lejos de la atención médica. Los planes estatales de salud materna no tienen en cuenta ni la contaminación ni el calor extremo.

This is  California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! Today’s topic is public EV chargers and California’s long and winding road to make them

With the COP31 climate summit in Turkey looming, all eyes are on China to see what the country will push… The post Experts: What China wants from the COP31 climate talks appeared first on Carbon Brief.

A decade ago, an electric vehicle with more than 300 miles of range would have cost you nearly $100,000. Today, 300 miles of range sits in the middle of the market and consumers can expect at least 200 miles in even the least expensive models, based on the latest 2027 model-year

Many agricultural pests are benefiting from climate change.

The world’s largest importer of crude oil has cut transportation-related oil use by 16% since the Iran war started – in part by adopting EVs.

Tanja Konwinski thought the Constitution pipeline was dead. When her husband bought 82 acres in Schoharie County, New York, in 2023, she knew Williams Cos. held an easement on the property for the proposed natural gas pipeline. But the state had rejected the project’s water quali