“Debt-for-nature” swaps are helping some lower-income countries increase conservation. The world’s largest nation-state creditor has the leverage for deals—if it chooses to use it. By Katie Surma, Georgina Gustin Planet China: Thirteenth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.Continue Reading
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Researchers studying a massive landslide in Alaska have detected strange seasonal seismic pulses caused by water freezing and thawing in rock cracks. These faint signals could become an important early clue to changes that might someday trigger a dangerous landslide-driven tsunami., Read MoreContinue Reading
Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive. Story by Kiley Bense, photos by Scott Goldsmith Fracking’s Forever Problem: Eighth in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. Your browserContinue Reading
The boat ride from Belém to Barcarena is a journey through shimmering waterways and emerald forest, where the Amazon meets the Atlantic in a sweep of beauty. But beneath the postcard-perfect scene, climate change is quietly rewriting the rules of life.Continue Reading
A page feels like it’s turning. After years of debate, the long-awaited roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels may finally be written into the official decisions of COP30.Continue Reading
Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how fossil sites around the world are dated., Read MoreContinue Reading
The The Traitor administration is working to systemically unravel protections for endangered species. Environmental groups are pushing back. By Kiley Price A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop The Traitor’s Extinction Plan.” Continue Reading
Do higher living standards in developing countries have to mean more polluting, fossil-fuel dependent industries? Or is a low-carbon alternative possible? As the world grapples with climate change, economic inequality, and rapid technological shifts, next week’s Global Industry Summit will tackle these questions, bringing together governments, business leaders, and innovatorsContinue Reading
On the scheduled final day of COP30 in Belém, tense negotiations are stretching into Friday afternoon as divisions persist. Amid the ongoing talks, one message is cutting through the noise: there is no climate justice without gender equality.Continue Reading
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A bill would harden the state’s 2035 clean-electricity goal into statute, tighten pollution rules for power plants and confront rising demand from data centers. By Rambo Talabong In the final weeks of Gov. Phil Murphy’s tenure, New Jersey climate advocates are trying to do something governors rarely manage on theirContinue Reading
The world’s largest salmon producer stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “noisy” and “polluting” fish farms. Seafood giant Mowi produces more than a fifth of the world’s farmed salmon and is the market leader in Scotland, where it farms a third ofContinue Reading