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A view down a prison corridor, showing bars and cell doors.

Study: Extreme heat is driving deaths in US prisons

New research makes clear the link between climate change and prison mortality.

Alleen Brown Equity March 1, 2023

A map of Australia containing a photograph of Clive Palmer

Billionaire’s coal mine blocked on climate grounds

A court in Australia recommended against approving a massive coal mine proposed by a company owned by billionaire Clive Palmer, arguing that the project would exacerbate climate change and jeopardize human rights.

Joseph Winters December 7, 2022

Equipment to move logs in between two giant piles of logs at a biomass facility

Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air.

In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood pellet mills say they’re getting sick.

Tristan Baurick Health January 22, 2026

Protestors gather in Dillingham, Alaska for a rally against Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay.

EPA issues rare veto, halting Alaska’s Pebble mine

Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.

Jessie Blaeser Regulation February 1, 2023

political signs line a highway near a high, dry mountain range

One issue will decide Arizona’s future. Nobody’s campaigning on it.

The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought.

Jake Bittle Politics October 22, 2024

Collage: people protesting poor air quality; a house with an air monitor in the yard; smokestacks with hand drawn smoke

Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?

The new climate bill could help reveal industrial pollution. But no law requires the government to act.

Lylla Younes Health October 20, 2022

‘Phaseout’ or ‘phasedown’? Why UN climate negotiators obsess over language

Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28.

Akielly Hu COP28 November 29, 2023

View of Hobart Bay off Stephens Passage in Tongass National Forest, Southeast Alaska, USA.

Why Biden’s new protections don’t eliminate threats to the Tongass National Forest

The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.

Naveena Sadasivam Regulation January 30, 2023

Father son carried flooding Brentwood California

California’s storms are almost over. Its reckoning with flood insurance is about to begin.

Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.

Blanca Begert Extreme Weather January 18, 2023

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