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Guardian

Biden backtracks on climate plans to court moderates

After stalling plans for pollution regulations, Biden is trying to keep progressives onboard while appealing to swing state voters.

Oliver Milman and Nina Lakhani · March 11, 2024
Grist

States and tribes scramble to reach Colorado River deals before election

Landmark agreements would cut big states’ water usage for decades and deliver water to the Navajo Nation.

Jake Bittle · March 7, 2024
Inside Climate News

How nations battered by climate change are crushed by debt from lenders

A new UN report describes the interplay between natural disasters made worse by climate change.

Katie Surma · March 7, 2024
bioGraphic

For sale: Shark jaw, tiger claw, fish maw

With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media helps wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight.

Marina Wang · March 6, 2024

Grist

How to ‘decouple’ emissions from economic growth?

These economists say you can’t.

Akielly Hu & Joseph Winters · March 5, 2024
Guardian

Ice-free summers in Arctic possible within next decade, scientists say

Home of polar bears, seals and walruses could be mostly water for months as early as 2035 due to fossil fuel emissions

Helena Horton · March 5, 2024
Mother Jones

Utility fraud and corruption are threatening the clean energy transition

A historic surge of malfeasance has cost US consumers—and thwarted efforts to slash emissions.

Mario Alejandro Ariza and Kristi E. Swartz · March 4, 2024
Guardian

US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’

New analysis finds money from Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars

Oliver Milman · March 4, 2024

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Grist

Climate change could unearth US nuclear waste buried abroad

A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from U.S. nuclear projects in Greenland and the Marshall Islands.

Anita Hofschneider · February 28, 2024
Undark

The uncharted world of emerging pathogens

In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air.

Rene Ebersole · February 27, 2024
Inside Climate News

Chemours and DuPont knew about risks but kept making toxic PFAS chemicals

A UN human rights panel calls on the UN Environment Assembly to take on “forever chemicals” at a meeting in Nairobi.

James Bruggers · February 26, 2024
Grist

How air pollution delayed a surge in extreme rain

Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.

Jake Bittle · February 23, 2024