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“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…
Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins and reporter Kiley Bense as they discuss how Pennsylvania is failing to track toxic oil and gas waste, while the amount sitting in landfills grows every year. By Kiley Bense…
The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20,…
The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void? As officials from around the world met in Brazil for the Cop30 climate summit last month,…
During the power outage following the winter storms of 2021 — known in Texas as Winter Storm Uri — Rita, an Indigenous woman who lives with severe mental illness and congestive heart failure, tried with her then-partner to stay warm in…
Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But it’s home to a rich diversity of…
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is…
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known. By Kiley Bense, Peter Aldhous Fracking’s Forever Problem: Seventh in a series about the gas…
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…
The Trump 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 Trump’s…