{ "entity": "EarthNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "earthnews.net", "vertical": "Climate & Energy", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-08-24T19:10:47.075Z", "articles": [ { "title": "A Global Gathering to Tackle the Planet’s Soil Crisis Is Underway in Mongolia", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082026/convention-to-combat-desertification-highlights-soil-crisis/", "summary": "In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, policy makers, scientists and global negotiators are gathering to convey an urgent message: The world’s rangelands, which make up about half of Earth’s land surface, are in trouble. But these same lands offer an opportunity. If, collectively, farmers and", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Remembering the ‘Visionary’ Author of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Rights Amendment", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24082026/remembering-franklin-kury-pennsylvania-environmental-rights-amendment-visionary/", "summary": "A monumental figure in Pennsylvania’s environmental movement passed away last week. Former state legislator Franklin Kury, who was 89, led Pennsylvania to become one of the first governments in the world to adopt a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a healthy environment as a ", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:02:23 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "The Trump Administration Has Spent Billions Boosting Gas Exports, Spurring More Fracking", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24082026/trump-spends-billions-boosting-lng-exports/", "summary": "For companies looking to export natural gas, the last few years have brought both feast and famine. The growth has been so fast that some efforts have struggled to secure financial backing. There are simply more proposed projects than there is demand to buy their gas. The Trump a", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again.", "url": "https://grist.org/energy/tennessee-helped-usher-in-the-nuclear-age-it-wants-to-lead-the-way-again/", "summary": "But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs", "url": "https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/living-with-drought-has-taught-pastoralists-lessons-the-world-needs/", "summary": "Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season", "url": "https://grist.org/extreme-weather/even-meteorologists-are-baffled-by-the-midwestern-tornado-season/", "summary": "More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:15:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities", "url": "https://grist.org/energy/trump-ordered-to-release-billions-in-climate-grants-meant-for-black-communities/", "summary": "From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Burning Questions Confront Wildland Firefighters in Maine and Across New England", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082026/new-england-wildland-firefighters-impacted-by-federal-proposals/", "summary": "Wildfires in New England rarely make national news. The spotlight is more often on the catastrophic fires of Western states, but the Northeast’s fire season has been quietly heating up. In 2025, severe drought quadrupled Maine’s late-summer fire activity. In 2024, another drought", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Boulder, Colorado, and Big Oil Prepare for High-Stakes Clash in Supreme Court", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082026/suncor-v-boulder-supreme-court-climate-case/", "summary": "Local and state governments across the United States have turned to state courts over the past nine years, filing lawsuits reminiscent of those against the tobacco industry in the 1990s against major fossil fuel companies, aiming to hold them accountable for climate change damage", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:55:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’", "url": "https://grist.org/wildfires/firefighters-sound-alarm-as-us-faces-critical-staffing-shortage-we-dont-have-enough-people/", "summary": "Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Primary Effort ‘Changed the Conversation’ Around Wyoming’s Public Lands", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082026/public-lands-win-in-wyoming-primary/", "summary": "Zach Lentsch was leading a climbing trip on Devils Tower in Wyoming’s northeast corner on Aug. 18 when he got a text from a friend saying voter turnout in the state primary, held that day, was strong. The chairman of Protect Wyoming, the first and only political action committee ", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:55:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22082026/iowa-loess-hills-slaughterhouse-waste/", "summary": "In a matter of days, a dirt pit the size of five football fields appeared next to the weathered headstones of Center Cemetery in Castana, Iowa. The excavation site sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, a 200-mile corridor of craggy bluffs and ridges bordering the Missouri River va", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:50:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Texas Oil and Gas Regulators Will No Longer Have to Accept Public Comment at Open Meetings", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21082026/texas-railroad-commission-new-participation-policy/", "summary": "The three elected officials who regulate the oil and gas industry in Texas hold an open meeting each month in Austin to vote on matters from pipeline violations to permit renewals. Members of the public can register to speak for up to three minutes at the end of each meeting. Peo", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:40:08 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Lawsuit Seeks to Block Closure of Top Federal Climate Research Center", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21082026/lawsuit-to-block-climate-research-center-closure/", "summary": "One of the nation’s largest environmental groups is challenging the Trump administration’s closure of a leading climate institute, filing a lawsuit Thursday in federal court saying the closure is unlawful. The administration had announced in December that it would dismantle the C", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:59:52 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Bomb Fishing Is Reducing Coral Reefs to ‘Rubble’", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21082026/bomb-fishing-destroying-coral-reefs/", "summary": "Nicknamed the “Amazon of the Seas,” the Coral Triangle is the world’s most biologically diverse marine ecosystem. Sink below the surface and you’ll encounter the sound of a vibrant symphony of snapping shrimp, crunching crustaceans and feeding fish.  But then the rhythmic music o", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:36:34 +0000", "image": "https://cdn.insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/21162043/Sounds-of-healthy-reef-c-Tim-Lamont.wav" }, { "title": "Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer", "url": "https://grist.org/energy/heat-waves-europe-grid-solar-energy/", "summary": "The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving", "url": "https://grist.org/drought/even-in-droughts-these-waterborne-diseases-can-boom/", "summary": "Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.", "url": "https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/whos-most-at-risk-in-the-cyclospora-outbreak-the-farmworkers-on-the-frontlines/", "summary": "An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null } ] }