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A farmer from Khoshob village walks near his water reservoir near Kandahar airfield, in southern Afghanistan. Credit: Kern Hendricks

Q&A: America’s 20-Year War in Afghanistan Is Over, but Some of the U.S. Military’s Waste May Last Forever

Interview by Jenni Doering, “Living on Earth”

Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate?

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Jon Hurdle

Texas Quietly Moves to Formalize Acceptable Cancer Risk From Industrial Air Pollution. Public Health Officials Say it’s not Strict Enough.

By Dylan Baddour

As Alabama Judge Orders a Takeover of a Failing Water System, Frustrated Residents Demand Federal Intervention

By Lee Hedgepeth

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

By Amy Green

Vessel Strikes on Whales Are Increasing With Warming. Can the Shipping Industry Slow Down to Spare Them?

By Kiley Price

Farm workers weigh jalapeño peppers after a day of work in San Francisco de Conchos, Chihuahua in August 2023. Many farm workers in the Delicias region are Rarámuri from the Sierra Tarahumara.

Tensions Rise in the Rio Grande Basin as Mexico Lags in Water Deliveries to the U.S.

By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and photos by Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times

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”

The Danger Upstream: In Disposing Coal Ash, One of These States is Not Like the Others

By Lee Hedgepeth

Pope Francis: ‘Irresponsible’ Western Lifestyles Push the World to ‘the Breaking Point’ on Climate

By James Bruggers

Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Steers Clear of a Climate Agenda in His Bid to Fend Off a Mitch McConnell Protege

By James Bruggers

Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes

By Phil McKenna

Gathered for a Climate Convergence at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, climate activists on Monday stood behind melting ice sculptures to demand more climate action by Gov. Shapiro and state lawmakers. Credit: Jon Hurdle.

At a ‘Climate Convergence,’ Pennsylvania Environmental Activists Urge Gov. Shapiro and State Lawmakers to Do More to Curb Emissions

By Jon Hurdle

Food scraps in a GrowNYC collection bin await pick up by the DSNY. Credit: Jake Bolster

Why New York’s Curbside Composting Program Will Yield Hardly Any Compost

By Jake Bolster

Gov. Josh Shapiro drew the ire of many environmentalists when he appointed a 17-member working group on climate emissions reductions without revealing all of the names of panel members. Credit: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images.

Shapiro Advisors Endorse Emissions Curbs to Fight Climate Change but Don’t Embrace RGGI Membership

By Kiley Bense

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hugs Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) as they speak at a news conference in September 2023 on the launch of the American Climate Corps outside the U.S. Capitol. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images.

Biden Creates the American Climate Corps, 90 Years After FDR Put 3 Million to Work in National Parks

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

For Sanibel, the Recovery from Hurricane Ian Will Be Years in the Making

By Amy Green

EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities

By Aman Azhar

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