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High Country News

What’s on your Christmas tree? Hint: Not just ornaments

A lack of data obscures the possible polluted legacy of a holiday tradition.

Ruby McConnell · December 15, 2023
Grist

The billion-dollar industry between you and FEMA’s flood insurance

Cutting payments to brokers, or selling policies directly to consumers, could save millions. FEMA and insurance companies say it’s not quite that straightforward.

Tik Root · December 14, 2023
Mother Jones

America’s Water Woes

A special investigation into how failed policy has put the Colorado River basin—and the water supply of one in five Americans—in great peril.

various authors · December 13, 2023
YaleEnvironment360

How mounting demand for rubber Is driving tropical forest loss

The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows.

Fred Pearce · December 13, 2023

Guardian

California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis

Genesis B v EPA is the latest in a series of youth-led constitutional climate cases brought by non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust

Dharna Noor · December 12, 2023
Grist

As UN talks collapse, the world has no plan to adapt to climate change

Rich countries are dodging responsibility for adaptation aid, infuriating leaders from vulnerable nations.

Naveena Sadasivam & Jake Bittle · December 12, 2023
Wired

The weirdest reason the poles are warming so fast? Invisible clouds

Clouds way up in the stratosphere act like a blanket, trapping heat in the Arctic and Antarctica. That could help explain why models keep underestimating how fast they’re warming.

Matt Simon · December 8, 2023
bioGraphic

Fighting for wildlife in a time of war

As conflict rages around them, Ukrainian conservationists persevere in restoring the Danube Delta, one of Europe’s most prized ecosystems.

Adam Robertson Charlton · December 6, 2023

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Guardian

‘A matter of survival’: India’s unstoppable need for air conditioners

Access to sufficient cooling could further drive up the already rampant inequality in the country

Hannah Ellis-Petersen · December 5, 2023
Guardian

‘No climate justice without peace’: Gaza becomes flashpoint for climate activists

Many in the global movement are divided on whether or how to take a stand on the conflict

Ajit Niranjan, Damien Gayle and Nina Lakhani · December 5, 2023
Inside Climate News

Older voters are second only to young people in share of ’climate voters,’ new study shows

A report from the Environmental Voter Project says “gray is the new green."

Marianne Lavelle · December 5, 2023
Guardian

Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil

Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demand

Damian Carrington · December 4, 2023