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New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.

Boeing has almost completed the demolition of five buildings at its infamous Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California, even as concerns mount among nearby families about potential health harms. The buildings at the former Rocketdyne facility—where one of the worst nuc

​As world leaders struggle to meet deadlines to halt nature loss set four years ago, a rare leopard in host country Armenia offers a symbol of what is at stakeDon’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Armenian capital Yerevan is chock-a-block right now with

Students across Kalimantan and Sumatra took to the streets to demand government accountability for the wildfires and toxic haze blanketing the region. While Indonesia regularly battles wildfires in the dry season, these blazes are the most intense in more than a decade and exacer

The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.

Federal lawmakers want to ban imports of wild sloths to the United States, a move experts say could have global implications for the conservation of the tree-dwelling species.  Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) is set on Tuesday to introduce a bill, co-sponsored by Laurel Lee (R-F

Program founded by tomato growers has some of the strongest US worker protections – and its approach is being emulated by other groups“It’s the kind of heat that makes you feel like you’re being dehydrated, like your skin is drying out,” said Lucas Benitez, after harvesting water

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity. Atrazine is the second-most widely used weed killer in the U.S. after glyphosate, wh

On a misty and breezy morning last fall, Marc Hamric, a North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries veteran, and two other technicians were conducting field work in Turnagain Bay, a remote area near Cedar Island. They had brought their boat ashore, but because the water was so ro

On July 22, Aurélie Filleau and her husband were given 10 minutes to get their children and a few possessions into the car before evacuating their house in Le Porge, a town near Bordeaux, France.  The family managed to bring their dog but left behind two cats and a parrot. “I wan

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with veteran Maine journalist Kevin Miller. The closely watched race for U.S. Senate in Maine is pitting two environmentally concerned candidates again

Record-high temperatures in September encompassed the largest area of the globe for any month since records began.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tzeporah Berman, the founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. As the United Nations gears up for the COP31 climate session in mid

New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.

Before a utility can raise electricity rates, it must get approval from regulators. In Ohio, some groups are looking to step into that process to make sure FirstEnergy, whose utilities supply power to over 2 million customers in the state, uses some of the money it will receive f

Letter to PM argues series of wrong choices on North Sea oil, Heathrow, EVs and heat pumps will scupper net zero plansAndy Burnham will “sleepwalk” into climate disaster if he fails to get a grip on a series of important policies whose combined impact could scupper plans to reach

Italian army removes and defuses 250 explosives encased in ice for more than 100 years after hikers’ sightingsA significant cache of unexploded bombs from the first world war emerged this summer from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Dolomites, the Italian army has said.The devi

Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate actionThe world’s wealthiest people are not just profiting from the polluting causes of climate breakdown, they are also increasingly cashing in on the catastrophic consequenc

Environmentalists worldwide are celebrating the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a win for the Amazon’s future and global climate policy.  The three-term incumbent narrowly defeated right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who climate activists warned w

Miami faces its longest-ever streak of moderate coastal flooding, historic floods sweep across the Southwest, and Typhoon In-fa and Cyclone Arnab threaten the Northern Mariana Islands and eastern India.

V2G tech enables drivers to charge automatically when electricity is cheaper and then sell some back to the grid at times of high demandElectric cars that can be used as “power plants on wheels” could be given government backing as part of plans under consideration to help UK man

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy?The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni

A medida que se intensifica el calor extremo en el noroeste del Pacífico, el estado ha ampliado las protecciones para los inquilinos que desean climatizar sus viviendas.

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