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In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores

A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

An aerial view shows the aftermath of flooding in the Pajaro Valley of Monterey County as atmospheric river storms hit California in March 2023. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Jeanette Toomer fears that formaldehyde-based relaxers in hair straighteners she used for decades led her to develop endometrial cancer. Credit: Michael Kodas

Black Women Face Disproportionate Risks From Largely Unregulated Toxic Substances in Beauty and Personal Care Products

By Victoria St. Martin

Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 14, 2016. Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

By Phil McKenna and Peter Aldhous

A conservationist with the NGO Panthera fights a fire in Porto Jofre, the Pantanal of Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on September 4, 2021. The Amazon, home to more than three million species, has long absorbed large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions, but some research has shown it recently emitting more CO2 than it absorbs due to wildfires, deforestation and declining forest health. Credit: Carl De Souza/AFP via Getty Images

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

By Bob Berwyn

Larsen B Ice Shelf

What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

In Clewiston, Florida, a sugar cane field in the Everglades Agricultural Area. Credit: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the Florida Everglades, a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Hotspot

By Amy Green

The Poet bioprocessing plant in Jewell, Iowa, which produces 90 million gallons of ethanol annually. Several pipelines have been proposed in the Midwest that would deliver millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide captured every year from Midwest ethanol plants to underground storage facilities. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Midwest Landowners Helped to Derail One of the Biggest CO2 Pipelines Ever Proposed

By Kristoffer Tigue

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Climate scientist and activist James Hansen attends a press conference at the COP 23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on November 6, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists

By Bob Berwyn

President Joe Biden addresses striking members of the United Auto Workers union at a picket line outside a General Motors Service Parts Operations plant in Belleville, Michigan, in September. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

UAW Settles With Big 3 U.S. Automakers, Hoping to Organize EV Battery Plants

By Dan Gearino and Aydali Campa

Cilantro grows on farmland near San Luis Obispo Regional Airport in California that has been irrigated with well water contaminated with high levels of PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam that for years was used in training exercises at the airport in August. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA to Fund Studies of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Agriculture

By Liza Gross

The U.S. Steel Corporation Gary Works, Tennessee St. gate, in Gary, Indiana, in September. The Gary Works was the largest greenhouse gas emitting iron and steel plant in the U.S. in 2022 with 10.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson / for Inside Climate News

Who Were the Worst of the Worst Climate Polluters in 2022?

By Phil McKenna

Atlantic puffin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. Credit: Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change

By Lydia Larsen

A small herd of Woodland Caribou on the tundra, Mackenzie Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Credit: by DeAgostini/Getty Images.

Corn Harvests in the Yukon? Study Finds That Climate Change Will Boost Likelihood That Wilderness Gives Way to Agriculture

By Kiley Price

A manatee swims in a recovery pool at the David A. Straz Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center in ZooTampa at Lowry Park in Tampa, Florida, on January 19, 2021. Red tides caused by human use of fertilizers, loss of food in their natural habitat and collision with boats are the main causes of manatee deaths. Credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images.

Fish and Wildlife Service to Consider Restoring Manatee’s Endangered Status

By Amy Green

A woman reacts as a wildfire burns at Palem Raya Regency in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera, Indonesia on September 18, 2023. Indonesian authorities are struggling to put out forest and land fires that have been engulfing many parts of the country, including fire-prone regions in Sumatra and Borneo, as the country enters the hottest day of this year's El Nino-induced dry season Credit: Muhammad A.F/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Scientists Disagree About Drivers of September’s Global Temperature Spike, but It Has Most of Them Worried

By Bob Berwyn

Inside Climate News reporter Liza Gross, right, takes the handoff of a cougar kitten from Caitlin Kupar, of Panthera, a global wild cat conservation organization, while accompanying biologists with the organization's Olympic Cougar Project to a cougar den on the Olympic Peninsula. Credit: Michael Kodas

Q&A: A Reporter Joins Scientists as They Work to Stop the Killing of Cougars

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

Bats outside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Credit: Claudio Beduschi/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines

By Emma Peterson

An endangered Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) is captured during a population survey. Before the mouse was released, a small skin sample was collected as part of the new biobanking program. Credit: Kika Tuff/Revive & Restore.

USFWS Is Creating a Frozen Library of Biodiversity to Help Endangered Species

By Kiley Price

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