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Europe is sweltering through an intense heat wave that is setting temperature records in the U.K. and France. It comes on the heels of a record heat wave in May. Read more on E360 →
Though marketed as clean energy, industrial pellet plants are driving deforestation, worsening floods, and polluting rural counties.
After years working in the climate movement, Katharine K. Wilkinson noticed that advocates consistently lacked the emotional stamina and support needed to stay active, inspired and connected to others engaged in climate work. Climate advocates are tired. The burnout is real. Solutions are abundant...
Desalination. Pipelines. Cloud seeding. Those are just a few ideas for how the Trump administration should save the desiccated waterway.
Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.
Millions of people are bitten by snakes every year. Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims.
Right-wing businessman Abelardo de la Espriella holds a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s preliminary presidential vote count, positioning the Donald Trump ally to clear the way for expanded fossil fuel extraction, including controversial fracking projects. A de la Espriella presidency would mark a...
As the Iran War has driven up fuel costs in Africa, demand for electric motorbikes has grown. Read more on E360 →
This story was produced in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Something moved John Byrum. He believed he could succeed where others had not. The executive director of the Nueces River Authority (NRA)—a small, rural agency based 200 miles from the...
Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in 2025, despite landmark rulings by international courts affirming governments’ obligations to protect both the environment and those who defend it. At least 358 human rights defenders were...
TANGIER, Va.— Terry Parks stood in the rear of a boat passing the western shore of Tangier Island. A native of this Chesapeake Bay island, he pointed to an area of bulky rocks with withered and wispy green grasses under the sun. A blue water tower stood in the distance. “That’s grandma’s house,”...
As opposition mounts, some experts wonder how long AI infrastructure can steer clear of the partisanship that defines U.S. politics.
Like much of Louisiana’s coast, the New Orleans Land Bridge is disappearing at a rapid rate.
As the administration dismantles guardrails for industrial fishing, it's also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.
Scientists are working to bolster heat-stressed kelp by attacking the urchins that prey on them and transplanting hardier kelp varieties.
A lawsuit filed by Greenpeace International against the U.S.-based fossil fuel company Energy Transfer in the Netherlands is moving forward after a Dutch court recently ruled in favor of the environmental organization in rejecting the company’s bid to toss out the case. The suit is connected to the...
The world has already lost more than half of its coral reefs, and most of what remains is at risk of disappearing in the next 25 years. But new research offers a ray of hope: Even as hotter temperatures devastate coral reefs, some still possess an extraordinary ability to endure. Teresa traveled to...
The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusetts’ renewable energy supply.
Robert Pancratz couldn’t believe it. The Musselshell County commissioner had been defeated in the Republican primary for his seat by a two-to-one margin earlier this month. Mark Olson, who lives in Musselshell and serves as the undersheriff in Golden Valley County, won by 26 percentage points. “That...
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with author Kevin Trenberth. El Niño is a phenomenon every few years in which a tropical region of the Pacific experiences unusually warm ocean surface temperatures, affecting...