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In March, President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the lawn of the White House to show off a line of electric vehicles, transforming, for a moment, the commander in chief into the car salesman in chief. Five months later,…
Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, set to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted…
Sea level rise, dwindling fisheries and Trump budget cuts make the Passamaquoddy tribe’s resiliency quest a test of smart planning and stubborn will. By Sydney Cromwell First of two articles about the Passamaquoddy Tribe’s struggles with sea level rise, water…
Softshell clams flourished for centuries on the Passamaquoddy’s Pleasant Point Reservation, before overfishing and climate change. Now, more than a million are maturing in a garden created three years ago by tribal members. By Sydney Cromwell SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been…
The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”
Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort. By Bob Berwyn Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and…
The rule protecting remote wilderness areas received 1.6 million public comments when it was developed. People will have just 14 business days to comment on a key part of its rescission. By Sarah Mattalian The U.S. Department of Agriculture is…
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas. By Nina Sablan CHESTER, Pa.—In this small city south of Philadelphia,…
From its source in the wetlands near Zambia’s northwestern border, through the industrial zones of the Copperbelt, to where it plunges through a steep gorge toward the Zambezi, the Kafue River sustains some of Southern Africa’s richest ecosystems, vital to…
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as…