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Aerial view of a channel of water attached to the Mississippi River with smaller areas of water scattered over the land

As the Louisiana coast disappears, the Mississippi River’s newest channel is building much-needed land

It's up to the Army Corps to keep it flowing.

Lina Tran Science June 17, 2022

Biden takes on super-pollutants

The Biden administration is taking a big shot at the super-pollutants known as hydrofluorocarbons.

Zoya Teirstein September 24, 2021

Fighting fire with fi…fty billion dollars

A new program from the Biden administration will spend $50 billion over the next 10 years to prevent the West’s next major conflagration.

Joseph Winters January 20, 2022

Rolling hills and forest are interrupted by an enclosure with a gas installation.

Amid fracking boom, Pennsylvania faces toxic wastewater reckoning

A grand jury and the EPA have cited potential disposal problems, and activists are fighting new injection wells. Yet the gas industry claims fracking is essential for the state’s economic health and that most of its wastewater is safely recycled.

Stacey Burling, Inside Climate News Energy April 30, 2023

Oil pump jacks at the Elk Hills oil field in Kern County, California.

Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition

Kern County is betting on carbon capture to replace oil jobs and tax revenue. But will the county’s new economy repeat the sins of the old one?

Jake Bittle Energy May 15, 2024

A man stands on a hill under a cloudy sky as water pours from a pipe.

Texas’ water infrastructure is broken, jeopardizing quality and supply for a growing state

On a daily basis, water managers in cities across the state move from crisis to crisis hoping to keep the water flowing to residents.

Jayme Lozano Carver, The Texas Tribune & Pooja Salhotra, The Texas Tribune Drought May 13, 2023

Airborne DNA is being used to detect insect species, a breakthrough for ecologists

The technique has ‘huge potential’ for monitoring decline in biodiversity, say scientists.

Patrick Barkham Science January 5, 2022

Collage of bed floating in air with an earth that is on fire underneath it

Study: Warming temperatures are eroding our ability to sleep

Climate change is keeping us up at night in more ways than one.

Zoya Teirstein Climate May 20, 2022

A person stands in front of a panel showing the Earth on fire

Is accepting the end of humanity the key to climate action? This scholar thinks so.

“This is not another ‘before it’s too late’ book. This is a ‘what if it’s already too late?’ book.”

Diana Kruzman Culture July 29, 2022

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