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My boomer mom’s cheap online shopping habit drives me nuts
Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport weighs in on overcoming a generational clash when it comes to sustainable consumption.
Even in disaster zones, many prisons and jails lack evacuation procedures
Incarcerated people have experienced flooded cells, a loss of running water, and power outages.
The Coalition says it wants cheaper power, not ideology. But its evidence-free plan is all ideology | Adam Morton
The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideologyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGive the Coalition points for chutzpah, if nothing else. In a press release on Wednesday, first given
Offshore wind job training built for a boom is facing down a bust
Workforce programs are trying to ride out the legal, administrative, and economic headwinds of the Trump administration.
In New York, Life-sized American Bison Puppets Inspire Hope for Restoration Efforts
Standing on Manhattan’s High Line, Jason Baldes watched pedestrians, cyclists, cars and trucks braid their way through New York City. The executive director of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming was in town for New York’s first-ever buffalo march, a showcase of 4
Vistra’s Moss Landing grid battery is on fire yet again
It happened yet again. Another plume of smoke rose from Vistra’s Moss Landing battery plant Friday morning, a year and a half after a catastrophic fire wrecked the grid storage facility in Northern California. Vistra built Moss Landing on the California coast, south of Santa Cr
The world’s rivers are at breaking point. Can we save them before it is too late?
In this week’s newsletter: As the Guardian launches a year-long project, Our Rivers, we take stock of the issues facing waterways around the worldDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe nicknames of the world’s biggest rivers give a sense of how we feel a
Tories suggest they would scrap ‘1970s’ tradition of having TUC figures on Bank of England court – UK politics live
Shadow chancellor says having union chiefs on the court of directors could hinder the Bank’s ‘reputation for financial discipline’Andrew Griffith has delivered his speech, and he is now taking questions.Q: You want the government to pause the making tax digital programme. Is that
Court Rules in Favor of Feds and Denver Water on Dam Expansion
The unfinished expansion of Gross Reservoir near Denver can proceed after three judges ruled Tuesday in favor of the federal government and a water utility’s challenge to a lower court opinion halting construction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Denver Water defended the da
Benedict Cumberbatch on his Earth-saving eco film: ‘We are in the last grab of the extraction era’
From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venisonBenedict Cumberbatch is dreading stepping outside. He
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After a Deadly Flood, What Does Climate Justice for Nepal Look Like?
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tanuja Pandey, a climate justice activist in Nepal. In the weeks following the deadly glacier collapse and floods in Nepal this August, researchers from
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food productionThe biggest coal project before authorities in New South Wales, the HVO mine, will emit the equivalent of about 809m tonnes of climate-warming
In global first, a next-gen geothermal plant goes live at utility scale
The geothermal startup Fervo Energy is now selling power to the grid from its Cape Station project in Utah — marking the first time a utility-scale, next-generation geothermal facility has achieved such a feat worldwide. The Houston-based firm turned on an initial 33-megawatt un
Hurricane Nolo takes another turn, Polo to bring deep tropical moisture to Southwest desert
Polo aims for Baja California, Nolo flirts with Category 5 strength, and Rachel intensifies as the Pacific’s relentless late-September storm train rolls on. Meanwhile, Hanna is born in the Atlantic.
Trump administration to slash clean car rules aimed at cutting climate emissions
Environmentalists decry move that relaxes requirements on automakers to control pollution from gas-powered carsThe Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing clean car rules that had been aimed at reducing planet-heating emissions and boosting electric vehicles.The
Brightline shows people want more trains. But who will pay for them?
The company helped demonstrate the appeal of rail service in Florida. Its restructuring — and the billions in public financing sought for Brightline West — reveal the limits of private capital.
Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argueRecent attacks on US universities by the Trump administration have built on decades of efforts by libertarian donor networks, fossil fuel companies and conser
This Chicago museum gets people talking about climate change
At the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, visitors learn about clean energy and glacier melt.
Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022
An area of Amazon forest roughly the size of the US state of New Jersey has remained standing due to… The post Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
How to Protect Yourself From Disaster Scams
This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. All over Hawaiʻi, property owners are hoping to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by recent disasters. Many Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi island residents are still assessing the damage caused by downed
Planet China
Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. In this episode, we discuss China’s burgeoning electric-vehicle exports—now entering a key market for U.S. automakers—and the environmental impacts of Beijing’s massive “Belt and Road Initiative,” which f
Revealing the Invisible Injustice of Extreme Heat
The extreme heat scientists have warned about for decades came to Europe again this summer, killing at least 30,000 people like a silent, invisible plague. It came for poor people, the very young and very old, and those suffering from debilitating conditions. The final toll will
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