From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venisonBenedict Cumberbatch is dreading stepping outside. He
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RSS →From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Emily Renkey from the Marmot Project. You may have heard of Fat Bear Week, the annual contest where the public gets to vote on who they think is the f
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has built what may be the biggest battery in the U.S. at its controversial Memphis AI computing hub. The exact size of the battery is unclear. Canary Media counted 720 Tesla Megapack battery containers visible on the grounds of the Colossus 2 data center in
The intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter.
Two-thirds of Utah voters support restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to the previous boundaries they had before President Donald Trump reduced them to less than a quarter of their original size. That’s according to new polling
Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.
When the power goes out during a Georgia summer, the heat builds fast. Inside a home without air conditioning, the air turns heavy and stifling. For Donica Odell, who has dealt with Georgia Power disconnections for much of her life, it feels “like you’re boiling like crab legs.”
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from challenging California’s longstanding authority to set vehicle pollution stan tdadards stricter than federal requirements. The legal dispute stems from a decision announced in June by EPA administrat
PUYO, Ecuador—People fighting oil wells, mines and other threats to their homelands did not come to this Amazonian city to lobby politicians at an environmental conference hosted by governments. They built the conference themselves. The 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum, known as
KERMAN, Calif.—One hundred degrees on a steamy Thursday afternoon and not much can be seen along the dust-blown avenue in Kerman. A school bus cruises by. Cows lap up water or feed behind a fence. A tractor crosses the road. What’s most evident in this span of the San Joaquin Va
Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about.
TAMPA, Fla.—Ross Fabian’s low-slung apartment building sits beside a pond that sometimes smells of dead fish. He has seen dead dogs in the pond. For many years the pond has served an important purpose, as a repository of sorts for the pollutants and contaminants that flow with Fl
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JSON →From Obama’s chef to a big cat obsessive, the actor has gathered experts from Alaska, the Amazon and beyond for a film about how to heal our besieged planet. He talks about naysayers, elephant tusks – and the wonders of venisonBenedict Cumberbatch is dreading stepping outside. He
The intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter.
Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end.
Grant applications in England surge as interest grows in habitat that captures carbon and helps reduce flood riskThe ancient craft of hedge laying is experiencing a strong revival as farmers use techniques that peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries to boost wildlife, capture carb
One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis. We need leaders who make things better not worseIf you think you have heard enough about the growing “super” El Niño, trust me, you are going to hear a lot more. What is happening in t
Between 2000 and 2018, extreme heat caused more deaths in Australia than all our bushfires, floods, storms and cyclones combinedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBack in April 2004, in the shadow of th
On the heels of the hottest summer on record and a United Nations report warning that global temperatures are likely to push climate risks to “increasingly dangerous heights,” the Trump administration overturned most of a Biden-era rule limiting climate pollution from power plant
The Iowa Utilities Commission is moving toward hearings on the second phase of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, which would add hundreds of miles of lines to a project already stuck in a legal quagmire. Summit Carbon Solutions initially intended to carry CO2 from ethanol plant
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet pollutersOn the heels of the hottest summer ever recorded in the US, the Trump administration has said it will erase any limits on emissions from coal and gas plants tha
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal.
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankingsDown a short gravel track in a largely nondescript corner of Louisiana sits a gas processing facility, operated by a company whose chief executive is a major donor to Donald
Californians could soon find it easier and cheaper to install rooftop solar, home batteries, and energy-saving heat pumps and heat-pump water heaters. Late last month, the state Legislature passed two first-in-the-nation bills that would streamline permitting and inspections for
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