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Human Rights Watch blames Louisiana regulators for low birth weights in Cancer Alley

In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.

Lylla Younes Regulation January 25, 2024

Scientists examine sea ice in the Arctic

Global warming is melting Arctic sea ice. Can science refreeze it?

Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.

Matilda Hay Climate April 14, 2025

An American flag flies near the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Plant on November 19, 2024 in Wilmington, California.

California is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what’s next

Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry the state will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.

Tik Root Energy August 15, 2025

View of a cattle ranch in the Jiangsu province of China

The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem

Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.

Frida Garza Food and Agriculture November 19, 2024

Why are all of America’s biggest cities sinking?

A new study finds that the country's 28 most populous metros are losing elevation, from New York City to Seattle.

Matt Simon Cities May 8, 2025

Chevron gas station after fire swept through it.

The Trump administration just dismissed all 400 experts working on America’s official climate report

It’s not clear who will now write the Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — or whether it will be written at all.

Joseph Winters Science April 29, 2025

A man stands outdoors with oil drills to either side of him. He has white hair and his hands are clasped in front of him.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Nick Bowlin, The Frontier Accountability October 29, 2025

A pumpjack in an oil field, behind barbed wire fence.

Occidental Petroleum’s net-zero strategy is a ‘license to pollute,’ critics say

The company’s climate strategy could result in more emissions than it prevents.

Joseph Winters Accountability May 9, 2024

A truck is loaded with coal at a mine in Cumberland, Kentucky, on August 26, 2019.

Trump is fast-tracking new coal mines — even when they don’t make economic sense

In Appalachian Tennessee, mines shut down and couldn't pay their debts. Now a new one is opening under the guise of an "energy emergency."

Katie Myers Energy July 18, 2025

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