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EcoWatch For a Healthier Planet and Life
- Methane 101: Understanding the Second Most Important Greenhouse Gas
by EcoWatch on August 5, 2025 at 8:17 pmBy Olivia Rosane and Cristen Hemingway Jaynes Quick Key Facts What Is Methane? What has no color or smell and is found in wetlands, cow burps and your basement furnace? The answer is methane — a […]
- New York Finalizes Rule for New Buildings to Be Electric
by Paige Bennett on August 4, 2025 at 5:15 pmNew York is now the first state in the U.S. to require new buildings to be built entirely electric, without hookups to fossil fuels including gas, the New York State Assembly reported. The rule was […]
- Mass Die-Off of Western Monarch Butterflies Linked to Pesticides, Study Findsby Paige Bennett on August 1, 2025 at 6:49 pm
A new peer-reviewed study has linked pesticides as a likely cause to a mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies that occurred in 2024. In January 2024, researchers found hundreds of dead or dying […]
- Deepest-Known Animal Communities Found Almost Six Miles Below Sea Levelby Cristen Hemingway Jaynes on August 1, 2025 at 9:55 am
Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed it is the deepest colony of animals ever […]
- Pristine Forest and Endangered Gorilla Habitat at Risk as Half of DRC Opened to Bids for Oil and Gas Drilling: Reportby Cristen Hemingway Jaynes on July 31, 2025 at 6:26 pm
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is home to many species of rare and endangered wildlife, such as mountain gorillas, eastern lowland gorillas and bonobos. But the country has plans to open […]
Inside Climate News Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonpartisan reporting on the biggest crisis facing our planet.
- 20,000 Salmon Return to the Klamath—but Challenging Conditions for Recovery Remainby By Claire Barber on August 27, 2026 at 11:54 pm
In August 2024, excavation crews breached the last of four dams on the Klamath River in far northern California, marking the first time in over a century 100 years that salmon could swim above the […]
- Empoderando a las comunidades guatemaltecas afectadas por el plásticoby Por Liza Gross, fotos de Michael Kodas on August 27, 2026 at 10:40 pm
Read this article in English. Esta historia cuenta con el apoyo del Centro Pulitzer. JALAPA, Guatemala—En una tarde calurosa y bochornosa, en el pequeño pueblo montañoso de El Duraznal, Soila […]
- As Oceans Warm, Children Face Growing Malnutrition Riskby By Teresa Tomassoni on August 27, 2026 at 7:28 pm
When ocean temperatures soar, the consequences reverberate beyond the water. In coastal communities, marine heat waves threaten livelihoods, food security and human health—particularly the […]
- Global Warming Intensifies El Niño, Galápagos Coral Fossils Showby By Bob Berwyn on August 27, 2026 at 6:26 pm
Researchers analyzing modern and fossil corals from the Galápagos Islands concluded that global warming has intensified El Niño cycles over the last 40 years, making them more extreme than natural […]
- Rooftop Solar Is Having a Rough Oneby By Dan Gearino on August 27, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Rooftop solar installers feel like a dog that’s been repeatedly kicked. President Donald Trump has made solar more expensive—or at least slowed the long-term decline in costs—by imposing […]
Grist 25 Years on the Climate Beat
- ‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem
by Kate Yoder on August 27, 2026 at 8:45 amTech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here’s what they’re not talking about.
- On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US
by Tristan Baurick on August 27, 2026 at 8:30 amFast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG.
- The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it
by Joseph Winters on August 27, 2026 at 8:15 amIn the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation.
- The great American road trip is in peril
by Katherine Bagley on August 26, 2026 at 8:45 amAlong my family’s 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.
- US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.
by Jake Bittle on August 25, 2026 at 8:45 amThe Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
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