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Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure
In recent years, Schuyler Wight has noticed a growing number of abandoned oil wells coming back to life, gurgling fluids to the surface of his West Texas ranch. Last week he found the biggest one yet. Gassy water was gushing from the ground and down a quarter mile of roadway...
Intensifying Tropical Storms Threaten Seabirds, New Research Shows
More intense and frequent tropical cyclones and hurricanes are threatening some seabird populations more than previously thought, scientists said this week as they released a new study showing how a 2023 tropical cyclone wiped out 80 to 90 percent of the populations of three species of birds on Bedout Island off Western Australia’s Pilbara Coast.
Glaciers in Peru’s Central Andes Might Be Gone by 2050s, Study Says
In a village in Checacupe, in the southern region of Cusco in the Peruvian Andes, there used to be a ceremony to prepare a glacier lagoon to gather water, said Richart Aybar Quispe Soto, a local hospital worker. It was a ritual that revered the apus, the spirits of the mountains and water, he said.
Where the Water Doesn’t Flow: Thousands Across Alabama Live Without Access to Public Water
MARION COUNTY, Ala.— As often as they can, Michael and Mindy McClung get outside and walk along the quiet roads of their neighborhood. Both educators—Michael at a community college and Mindy at a high school—they talk as they walk. As he often does, Michael soon circles back to Cormac McCarthy, his favorite author. Mindy smiles.
Amid Record-Breaking Heat Wave, Researchers Step Up Warnings About Risks Extreme Temperatures Pose to Children
As a mother of two and a physician who specializes in working with newborns, Mattie Wolf understands that it can be tempting for parents to look upon their children and regard them as a “mini-me.”. But when it comes to high summer temperatures, Wolf cautions, that may be one...
In Brazil’s Semi-Arid Region, Small Farmers Work Exhausted Lands, Hoping a New Government Will Revive the War on Desertification
This story was reported by Marco Zero journalists in Recife, Brazil as part of Report for the World, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project and in partnership with Inside Climate News. ICÓ-MANDANTES, Brazil—Beyond the fence, rows and rows of lifeless coconut tree trunks stand like skeletal sentinels, their leafless forms...
Living and Dying in the Shadow of Chemical Plants
MCINTOSH, Ala.—Andy Lang, dressed all in black and wearing a cap, is on Highway 43, heading to McIntosh High School. Like Lang, most of the town’s 250 residents graduated from the school and today many are gathering there for the homecoming parade. As the car heads south towards...
Q&A: As Temperatures in Pakistan Top 120 Degrees, There’s Nowhere to Run
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by executive producer and host Steve Curwood with Rafay Alam, an environmental lawyer and a member of Pakistan’s Climate Change Council. Last year was the hottest summer on record in the Northern...
As Another Hot Summer Approaches, 80 New York City Neighborhoods Ranked Highly Vulnerable to Heat
NEW YORK—Outside the steps of her South Bronx apartment, Jill Hanson is thinking about the lack of green spaces as another hot summer descends upon New York City. Her neighborhood, Mott Haven, is among 80 communities considered highly threatened by humidity and high temperatures under a new Heat Vulnerability Index developed by Columbia University and the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Louisville, Kentucky, Moves Toward Cleaning Up Its ‘Gully of the Drums’ After More Than Four Decades
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—City officials are taking their first public step toward cleaning up hazardous waste in a popular park after a local graduate student last year called out a 45-year comedy of errors by federal, state and local agencies that allowed the dumped drums and chemicals to escape remediation. Louisville...
The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities
In the early 2000s, the Peruvian government granted a Canadian silver mining company a license to begin exploratory operations in Indigenous Aymara territories. The project divided communities, with some worrying about potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems they relied on for sustenance and with which their culture was entwined. While...
Human-Made Noise Is Harming Ocean Life. Climate Change Could Make it Worse
In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, casting an eerie quiet over once-bustling ports and ocean highways. However, an entirely different scene was playing out under water. Baleen whales bellowed intricate songs, dolphins clicked back and forth and bigeye fish popped and pulsed—all heard more clearly due to the rare calmness above, according to a global network of researchers that study ocean acoustics.
Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy
In 2019, when the 450 million citizens of the European Union’s 27 member states last went to the polls to choose a parliament for the continent, youth-led climate activism was cresting. Hundreds of thousands of people marching in the streets of Berlin, Brussels, London, Paris and Vienna during the campaigning helped turn the EU parliamentary election into a referendum on climate action and preserving nature.
Mexico Elected a Climate Scientist. But Will She Be a Climate President?
Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, an energy engineer and physicist by training, has published widely on the energy transition and greenhouse gas emissions as an environmental scientist. She has co-authored a U.N. climate report, and as Mexico City mayor, she installed solar power on a city market and electrified public transportation routes.
A Proposed Nevada Lithium Mine Could Destroy Critical Habitat for an Endangered Wildflower Found Nowhere Else in the World
In less than half a day, you could walk all the way around the 10 acres the endemic species Tiehm’s buckwheat calls home in the Silver Peak Range of Nevada, where the small wildflower with yellow pom-poms grows in part thanks to the soil beneath it being filled with lithium and boron.
California Oil Town Chose a Firm with Oil Industry Ties to Review Impacts of an Unprecedented 20-Year Drilling Permit Extension
On Tuesday, residents of a small Los Angeles County town came out in force to urge their city council to reject a California oil and gas company’s proposal to extend its neighborhood drilling operation permit for 20 years. Community organizers, scientists, engineers, doctors, educators, homeowners and people whose families...
UN Secretary-General Calls for Ban on Fossil Fuel Advertising, Says Next 18 Months Are Critical for Climate Action
NEW YORK — At a special address on climate action on Wednesday, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for the world’s governments, news media and tech companies to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies in light of the industry’s continued greenwashing of its role in perpetuating the climate crisis.
Solar Panel Prices Are Low Again. Here’s Who’s Winning and Losing
For decades, one of the near-constants in the shift to renewable energy was that solar panel prices were decreasing. This downward curve hit a bump in 2020. Global prices began to rise, largely due to supply disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, analysts said the price increases...
Texas Droughts Are Getting Much More Expensive
The financial costs of drought in Texas have risen rapidly over recent decades, according to a new analysis of federal crop insurance data. The Washington-based nonprofit Environmental Working Group, a longtime critic of the federal crop insurance program, analyzed data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and showed that drought accounts for more crop insurance payouts than any other weather phenomenon and that Texas draws more crop insurance payouts than any other state.
Youngkin Pledges to Decouple Virginia from California Vehicle Emissions Standards by End of 2024
RICHMOND, Va.—Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has pledged to return Virginia to federal vehicle emissions standards, three years after the state’s Democratic-led legislature passed a law committing the state to follow more stringent emissions rules set by California. “The idea that government should be telling Virginians what kind of...
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