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Month: June 2023

  • A damaged house in the village of Saint-Martin-Vesubie, southeastern France, on Dec, 3, 2020, two months after heavy rains and brutal floods left areas cut off from the world in the French Alps

    Inside Climate News

    Rainfall extremes increasingly threaten mountain regions

    A new study suggests the threat of flooding rains, landslides and erosion has been underestimated.

    Bob Berwyn · June 29, 2023

  • Cartoons of a chicken and a pig looking like they are about to fight

    Mother Jones

    Tightly packed poultry and pig farms could be incubating the next deadly flu

    No one wants this kind of viral mash-up.

    Tom Philpott · June 29, 2023

  • Artisanal fishermen arrive with fresh fish for sale in Puerto Montt on February 27, 2023.

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    Patagonian paradise lost?

    The environmental hazards of farming fish in a warming world

    Jessica McKenzie · June 29, 2023

  • Maasai people, who are Black, dressed in red near a tree

    Grist

    More Indigenous and local communities are getting land back

    Here’s why that’s important for the environment.

    Lyric Aquino · June 28, 2023

  • The coastline of the island Kiribati, with clouds obstructing some of the view

    Guardian

    ‘We could lose our status as a state’: what happens to a people when their land disappears

    Small island countries press for guarantees as rising sea levels risk leaving their citizens stateless

    Jonathan Watts · June 28, 2023

  • A photo of a factory surrounded by grass and a lake in the background

    Grist

    New EPA rules tell polluters in Great Lakes communities to clean up legacy coal waste

    One advocate calls the coal ash pits in her town a "ticking time bomb."

    John McCracken · June 28, 2023

  • A machine helping place concrete in front of an area with sea level rise

    bioGraphic

    Coastal flooding will be more extensive sooner than scientists thought

    Updated, more accurate data gives a new look at the effects of sea level rise.

    J. Besl · June 27, 2023

  • Student activists from Fridays for the Future join Earth Day rally and march to the White House on April 22.

    Mother Jones

    What to Know About the Groundbreaking Climate Change Lawsuit in Montana

    Climate law expert Michael Gerrard explains the stakes of Held v. Montana.

    Henry Carnell · June 27, 2023

  • A photo of Greg Abbott

    Guardian

    Texas governor signs bill rescinding water breaks as deadly heat grips state

    Measure will nullify local ordinances that provide workers protection from devastating, triple-digit temperatures

    Maanvi Singh · June 26, 2023

  • Canada's National Observer

    ‘We should have the choice’: The cultural backlash against gas stove bans

    Gas appliances are needed to cook culturally appropriate food.

    Isaac Phan Nay · June 23, 2023

  • Grist

    The Pacific Northwest’s deadly 2021 heat wave fuels a new lawsuit against Big Oil

    Multnomah County’s suit is one of the first to seek damages related to a specific weather event.

    Kate Yoder · June 23, 2023

  • A farmer in Niger tends to a tree sprout growing among his millet crop.

    YaleEnvironment360

    As Africa Loses Forest, Its Small Farmers Are Bringing Back Trees

    The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests, and a boost for carbon storage.

    Fred Pearce · June 22, 2023

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