Decades before microplastics were found in human hearts and brains, industry executives privately knew about tiny plastic particles crossing the gut lining, documents from the 1970s and 1980s show.Continue Reading
What climate issues are on midterm election ballots? Co-host Jake Bolster discusses local and national concerns with Iowa reporter Anika Jane Beamer and the Environmental Voter Project. By Jake Bolster, Anika Jane Beamer, Nathaniel Eisen Welcome to Inside Climate, a podcast from the staff of Inside Climate News. This year’sContinue Reading
From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.Continue Reading
If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.Continue Reading
Hurricane forecasters are increasingly using artificial intelligence to make predictions. (Image credit: NOAA)Continue Reading
For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations inContinue Reading
Air traffic delays cost billions and turn journeys into ordeals. Some countries are already proving that better coordination saves thousands of flying hours and cuts emissions – and the UN’s aviation agency wants the rest of the world to follow.Continue Reading
“The numbers that matter most are still secret,” said Monika Gerhart of the Gulf States Renewable Energy Industries Association. By Dennis Pillion Nearly all observers agree that Alabama’s new data center policies released this week are an improvement over the state’s old rules, which treat massive, power-hungry data centers likeContinue Reading
Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the water. Using machine learning and thousands of fossil measurements, Yale scientists have uncovered surprising clues about which prehistoric creatures truly became aquatic. Their findings suggest that Spinosaurus spent most of its lifeContinue Reading
The region’s expanding electric grid and semiconductor industry are driving increased emissions of the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new research reveals. By Phil McKenna Climate pollutant concentrations in the Beijing region of northern China have plateaued or begun to decline—except for the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new researchContinue Reading
Severe flooding in the Four Corners region has led to water rescues and impassable roadsContinue Reading
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.Continue Reading
Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the Environmental Protection Agency, and then helped Traitor 47 undo regulations meant to protect millions of Americans from toxic air pollution.Continue Reading