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In Florida, Gen Z activists step into the fight against sugarcane burning

Every year, farmers in South Florida set fire to more than 400,000 acres of sugarcane fields pre-harvest, creating a “black snow” of ash and soot that falls on the low-income communities nearby.

Michelle Mairena and Kyndall Hubbard · October 23, 2023
Mother Jones

The climate crisis has hit pharmacies

Drug supply chains are built for profit, not resilience. Will lawmakers act?

Julia Métraux · October 20, 2023
Grist

To obscure the risks of gas stoves, utilities borrowed from Big Tobacco’s playbook

Industry-funded research downplayed health hazards as far back as 1974, documents show.

Kate Yoder · October 19, 2023
Grist

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?

The link between environmental disasters and societal collapse, explained.

Kate Yoder · October 18, 2023

Inside Climate News

Coal Communities fear Justice40 excludes them from clean energy funds

As they compete for federal grants, it’s reigniting debate over which communities should be considered “disadvantaged.”

Kristoffer Tigue · October 18, 2023
Grist

Marco temporal: The anti-Indigenous theory that just won’t die

A recent effort by Brazilian lawmakers would be a disaster for Indigenous land claims and efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Lyric Aquino · October 18, 2023
Guardian

UAW says workers at GM battery plants will be covered by contract

As the autoworkers’ union grapples with the big three automakers for a contract, it expands its coverage to electric vehicle workers

Dharna Noor · October 16, 2023
Canada's National Observer

Canada is going all in on carbon capture. Is anyone paying attention to the risks?

When a CO2 pipeline fails, it fails catastrophically, putting the lives of people at risk. Will there be a reckoning with safety as governments plot a massive expansion of CO2 pipes?

John Woodside · October 13, 2023

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Climate crisis will make Europe’s beer cost more and taste worse, say scientists

Experts say hop yields and quality will continue to drop by 2050 if farmers don’t adapt to higher temperatures

Ajit Niranjan · October 13, 2023
Grist

The Supreme Court rejected a Republican challenge to Biden’s climate math

The social cost of carbon quantifies the hidden price of emitting CO2, from flood damage to health effects.

Kate Yoder · October 12, 2023
Inside Climate News

USFWS is creating a frozen library of biodiversity to help endangered species

Biobanking enables researchers to preserve genetic diversity in wildlife by freezing and storing living cells.

Kiley Price · October 11, 2023
Grist

Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama

Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.

Lylla Younes · October 11, 2023