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Detective McDavitt and the curious case of the clown wedgefish

Scientists were writing an obituary for this species when a lawyer turned internet sleuth found evidence of its existence in an unlikely place.

Brian Howey · September 7, 2023
$PENN TOWNSHIP, PA - SEPTEMBER 9: A natural gas compressor station sits on a hillside September 9, 2012 in Penn Township, Pennsylvania. The area is situated above the Marcellus Shale where drilling for natural gas and hydrofracking occurs. Hydrofracking is a controversial drilling method which pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals into horizontally drilled wells to stimulate the release of the gas. The Marcellus Shale gas field stretches diagonally across West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York State. Drilling operations have provided Pennsylvania with billions of dollars of income through employment and tax revenue. The environmental impact is a politically sensitive issue in a resource dependent state. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)$

Inside Climate News

New Pennsylvania bills aim to classify ‘produced water’ from fracking as hazardous

Waste from fracking in the state contains radioactive radium isotopes.

Jake Bolster · September 6, 2023
Grist

Electrifying your home is about to get a lot cheaper

Rebates from the IRA could help low- and middle-income households save thousands on heat pumps, weatherstripping, and other efficiency improvements.

Tik Root · September 5, 2023
Slate

Why the internet didn’t shred the paper business

And why US paper plants are folding anyway.

Rebecca Heilweil · September 1, 2023

Inside Climate News

The hidden dangers in beauty products and —and why women of color are particularly at risk

A researcher has been documenting “the environmental injustice of beauty.”

Victoria St. Martin · September 1, 2023
Grist

Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperatures at which photosynthesis stops

Heat is just one of the many stressors in the Amazon

Katie Myers · September 1, 2023
Guardian

First hurricanes, now wildfire: Louisiana parish takes on a new climate disaster

The Tiger Island fire took residents by surprise, but they collected bulldozers and got to work

Oliver Laughland · August 31, 2023
Inside Climate News

Compost may just save this city

Marvin Hayes founded Baltimore Compost Collective to ditch trash incineration and build a healthier future.

Aman Azhar · August 29, 2023

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The true cost of climate pollution? 44% of corporate profits.

Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for fossil fuels.

Kate Yoder · August 29, 2023
Guardian

After America’s summer of extreme weather, ‘next year may well be worse’

A freakish season of record temperatures, wildfire smoke and the destruction of Lahaina could soon become normal, climate experts say

Oliver Milman · August 28, 2023
Guardian

Asylum seekers in Greece ‘facing two great injustices of our time’

Amnesty links wildfires and lack of legal migration routes to deaths of 19 people believed to be asylum seekers

Ashifa Kassam · August 24, 2023
High Country News

Federal court derails proposed Utah oil railroad

Failures to assess risks to Colorado River and ‘numerous NEPA violations’ in project’s impact analysis highlighted.

Samuel Shaw · August 24, 2023