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EPA proposed undoing Biden-era policy on exposure to carcinogenic toxin in latest push to weaken toxin standards Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to increase the levels of exposure to highly carcinogenic formaldehyde it considers safe. If successful,…
Games such as Dragon Quest used to mobilize workers to back corporate goals including relaxing environmental rules Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, is using retro-style video games to rally its US workforce behind its corporate goals, including lobbying to relax…
The European Parliament voted on Dec. 17 to delay a key antideforestation regulation that was adopted in 2023 and originally supposed to be implemented at the end of 2024. The implementation was delayed a year to December 2025, and now…
Despite their name, tree hyraxes — small, furry, nocturnal African mammals — don’t always live in trees. In Tanzania’s Pare mountains, near the border with Kenya, they’ve adapted to life on steep rocky outcrops as forests disappeared over the centuries,…
Researchers noticed ‘dramatic’ changes in nutrients in crops, including drop in zinc and rise in lead More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious – and also potentially more toxic, a study has found.…
More than a decade after regulators promised to improve reporting standards for this waste, an Inside Climate News investigation found huge discrepancies in state records. By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous Fracking’s Forever Problem: Sixth in a series about the gas…
These breeding grounds for fish are under siege from red turf algae, sea urchins, storm surges, warming waters and climate change. By Pragathi Ravi Shane Farrell has spent the better part of the last three years underwater, diving off the…
An arctic wind cut across Prudhoe Bay, sending spindrifts swirling as Energy Secretary Chris Wright stepped onto a podium hastily erected among oil wells and pump stations. The gray summer sunlight scattered over ice-rimmed ponds, shadows gathering in the hollows…
Between March and May 2025, at least eight children from the Achuar Indigenous community died of leptospirosis in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon. The disease is preventable with access to safe drinking water and timely treatment. But these two conditions are…
The years leading up to 2025 were marked by a rare optimism that the United States would finally do something about climate change. Former president Joe Biden called the crisis an “enormous opportunity,” and during his term, Congress passed the…