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iPhone with cracked screen; top half is turning into square pixels that are floating off of the device

Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.

Under pressure from shareholders, Big Tech is finally making device repair easier.

Maddie Stone Technology April 29, 2022

Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not

“A bunch of countries and corporations are responsible for the mess. They have to bloody clean it up. As simple as that.”

Naveena Sadasivam International October 11, 2022

Collage: newspaper clippings with headlines about drought; photos of a yard with brown grass and a hose, cracked earth, a faucet dripping water, a field of dead almond trees, and a mountain with barely any snowpack on it; a circle made of wavy yellow lines is on top of the center of the collage

How climate change spurs megadroughts

The curious connection between the sky’s “thirstiness” and the dry spell devastating the western U.S.

Shannon Osaka Drought August 9, 2022

Papers with medical writing on them and photographs including employee ID badges

An invisible, toxic chemical has been poisoning residents in Puerto Rico for decades

An industrial worker got one whiff of ethylene oxide. Twenty years later, he still hasn’t recovered — and his community is searching for answers.

Lylla Younes, Naveena Sadasivam, & Joaquín A. Rosado Lebrón Accountability August 22, 2024

A droopy stalk of wheat silhouetted in the sunset.

Heatflation: How sizzling temperatures drive up food prices

As heat waves strike Europe and China, crops are withering.

Kate Yoder Agriculture July 15, 2022

Photo of mountaintop removal mine site with photo of flooded street in Kentucky layered on top

How coal mining increased East Kentucky’s flood risk

Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.

John McCracken Energy August 8, 2022

a dark-colored car park at a red and white charging station for electric vehicles in front of a sign stating prices

High gas prices have a lot more people searching for electric vehicles

But not everyone can afford to buy a new (or used) EV.

Chad Small Transportation March 15, 2022

California communities are fighting the last battery recycling plant in the West — and its toxic legacy

Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.

Molly Peterson Accountability April 22, 2024

Flames from a flare stack at an oil refinery at dusk in Texas

There’s a hurricane-sized hole in Texas air quality data

A new report finds Texas regulators often miss pollution because its air monitors are disabled during hurricanes.

Naveena Sadasivam Extreme Weather February 1, 2022

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