The city of Clyde sits about two hours west of Fort Worth on the plains of north Texas. It gets its water from a lake by the same name a few miles away. Starting in 2022, scorching weather caused its levels to drop further and further. Within a year, officials...
Trump targets federal employees working on conservation and environmental protection
The Trump administration moved last Monday to slash federal jobs across two key environmental and conservation agencies, targeting employees who work on scientific research and the enforcement of anti-pollution laws. At the Environmental Protection Agency, staff received a new round of furlough notices as funding dwindles amid the government shutdown....
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the few places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica. Scientists have predicted for some...
Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
Every year, United Nations member states gather together at the Conference of the Parties, better known as COP, to negotiate international climate agreements and assess global progress toward emissions reduction. The 30th annual COP will begin November 7 in Belém, Brazil, a city of about 2.5 million on the edge...
Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too
On a startlingly beautiful day high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Thomas Champeau waded into Yellowstone Prong hoping to catch the elusive Southern Appalachian brook trout. A pull-off along Blue Ridge Parkway had led him to a short path lined with mountain laurel. He and a smattering of afternoon anglers...
The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in.
With relatively little fanfare, the first-ever global carbon tax was poised to be formally adopted as an international agreement this year. The International Maritime Organization, or IMO, the United Nations agency overseeing global shipping, had drafted a net-zero framework to move the sector toward cleaner fuels — a crucial step...
Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil
As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis jostled for space on a recently paved street on the outskirts of the capital city. Passengers in suits disembarked alongside an overgrown canal. The visitors, some of whom had come from as far away as...
Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore
Nearly a year after the 2024 election, Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong. In the midst of this soul-searching, a new piece of advice has appeared: “Don’t say climate change.” That’s the takeaway from a recent poll by the Searchlight Institute, a new Democratic think tank....
Want to go to the UN’s biggest gathering of Indigenous peoples? Here’s how.
The United Nations has opened up a new round of funding to support Indigenous peoples to attend two major convenings in New York City and Geneva next year. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, happens every year in New York and is scheduled for April 20...
The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it
The largest herds of caribou in the world make their homes here. Polar bears give birth to cubs in dens dug into this soil, some of them more than 200 years old. And birds like the Arctic tern fly north every summer, some from as far south as Antarctica, to breed...