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The Amazon Fort Powhatan Solar Farm in Disputanta, Virginia.

US emissions rose in 2022. Here’s why that’s not as bad as it sounds.

As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions.

Jake Bittle Energy January 10, 2023

Smoke billows from smoke stacks at coal burning power plant.

EPA’s proposed air pollution standards for soot could save thousands of lives

Health experts say it doesn’t go far enough to limit the deadly pollutant.

Jessie Blaeser Health January 9, 2023

Two men in a flooded street before a building that says

The world’s climate plans overlook people with disabilities

The failure to consider their needs can be a matter of life and death.

Lina Tran Accountability June 13, 2022

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gives a press conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference.

The decade-old broken climate promise that looms over COP28

New data suggest wealthy countries may belatedly be providing a promised $100 billion in climate-related aid. But they’ve eroded trust in the process.

Jake Bittle International November 16, 2023

digital collage of paper mill and buildings with river and billboard set against background of mountains

As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices

On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.

Katie Myers Solutions April 27, 2023

an illustration of a woman in a red dress and a pregnant belly is in a space covered by a mosquito net with many mosquitoes hovering outside

Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal ‘double risk’ for malaria

Mosquitoes are moving into the mountains of Papua New Guinea and other highland areas. That could be a death sentence for pregnant people.

Zoya Teirstein Health May 30, 2024

a person in a COVID mask rides a bike past a city near water

Can Manila’s cycling boom survive a return to car traffic?

Metro Manila’s bicycling community surged early in the pandemic. Now activists are trying to keep the momentum going.

Whitney Bauck International August 24, 2023

An aerial view of a snow-covered Montana town in the foothills of a mountain, with a mine scraped out in the foothills of the mountain

Newly revealed records show how the EPA sided with polluters in a small Montana mining town

Documents detail how the EPA coordinated with the very companies they’re supposed to regulate by attacking researchers and smearing peer-reviewed science.

Wilson Criscione, InvestigateWest Health February 26, 2023

Illustration of Tik and his wife looking at their home with money flying around them

They thought getting their home off fossil fuels would be straightforward. Chaos ensued.

Here’s what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas.

Tik Root Buildings March 21, 2024

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