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Banks promised climate action. Where is it?

Not one of the top 30 financial institutions is following through on its climate pledge, a new report finds.

50 climate leaders you need to know

The next frontier in medicine: Doctors with climate training

Medical schools across the country are increasingly reckoning with the need to teach the intersection of climate change and health.

Study: Every single country is failing the WHO’s new air quality standards

Just 3 percent of the world's cities had an average air quality reading that met WHO standards in 2021.

There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows

54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.

FEMA is giving homeowners money to prepare for floods — or move away

The agency will dole out $60 million from the infrastructure bill to four states hit by Hurricane Ida.

Road salt is imperiling US waterways. States might have a solution.

Crews dump more than 20 million metric tons of salt on US roads each winter. Could 'smart salting' help?

Here’s the ‘energy transition’ needed to stave off climate catastrophe

And it’s not the one oil executives had in mind.

Peak cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. is early again

The harbinger of spring brings joy, but also growing unease over climate change

There is a greener way to mine crypto

It’s worth examining how the many, many “clean” crypto initiatives, currencies, blockchains, and marketplaces for non-fungible tokens actually stack up.