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Close calls at Michigan’s dams are a climate warning to America

Record flooding pushed Michigan's dams to the brink of disaster. The near miss reflects the national problem of infrastructure that is not suited to the challenges of a warming world.

Vivian La Extreme Weather May 7, 2026

The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities

To adapt to a rapidly warming world, metropolises are looking to green roofs, which boost biodiversity and reduce temperatures and flooding.

Matt Simon Cities April 27, 2026

An illustration of three people -- a woman with goats, a person with suspenders and a sun hat, and a woman in a blue dress near yellow plants -- under a darkening sky with moon and sunset

Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost

Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.

Ayurella Horn-Muller Food and Agriculture December 10, 2024

The skyline of lower Manhattan is seen in the distance, the World Trade Center glinting in the sunlight, with water and a bridge on which a person is walking in the foreground

Can cities ban natural gas in new buildings? A federal judge just said yes.

After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC's efforts to decarbonize its buildings.

Akielly Hu Buildings March 25, 2025

Trump’s EPA is attacking its own power to fight climate change

The decision could have far-reaching consequences — including for the fossil fuel industry, which may find itself exposed to a flood of new litigation.

Kate Yoder Politics July 30, 2025

Trawl fishermen empty a net full of fish onto the deck of a boat

Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions.

Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.

Max Graham Food January 21, 2024

Water pours from the Dalles Dam on the Columbia River in Washington.

Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?

With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.

Syris Valentine Drought April 26, 2024

Data centers are scrambling to power the AI boom with natural gas

As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.

Naveena Sadasivam & Jake Bittle Energy February 9, 2026

Man holds sign that says "Respect Indigenous Sovereignty" in one hand, and a Eastern Shoshone flag in the other on a winter day in protest.

In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now

A GOP-led Congress could resuscitate the effort to transfer roughly 2 acres within the Wind River Indian Reservation to a local irrigation district.

Taylar Dawn Stagner Indigenous Affairs January 14, 2025

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