Legislation that would reduce plastic waste in New York is advancing in the state Legislature amid a contentious debate over chemical recycling. If it passes, New York would have one of the strongest controls on plastic packaging in the country and could reduce the amount of non-recyclable packaging in the state by 30 percent over […]
The number of deforested kilometers in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2025 and March 2026 fell by 36 percent compared to the previous year, according to a recent report published by the Brazilian Human and Environment Amazon Institute, also known as Imazon. In total, 1,460 square kilometers (564 square miles) of land were cut down […]
Florida plans to shut down the Everglades migrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz as soon as early June, according to a news report. Officials at the site told vendors this week the facility, which is located in a sensitive region of the river of grass, will close and detainees will be moved elsewhere, The […]
Florida has temporarily halted importation of sloths following the deaths of dozens of the wild-born mammals at a now-shuttered Orlando business, a move with national implications. The two-month ban, which the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) ordered on Wednesday, is a significant roadblock for people attempting to import the tree-dwelling mammals from the […]
Scientists have uncovered a new driver of aridification, potentially reshaping how drought across the globe is understood. A new study published Wednesday in Nature by a pair of researchers from Dartmouth College and the Université du Québec à Montréal shows that changing precipitation concentrations exert an important influence over landscape moisture retention. When an area […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Former Vice President Al Gore is knocking on wood. Seated in front of portraits of Johnny Cash and Prince inside The Pinnacle, a Nashville music venue, Gore told Inside Climate News that despite the current state of both national and global politics, he believes humanity can and will surmount the challenge of human-induced climate […]
NEWHALEM, Wash.—More than a century ago, Seattle City Light broke ground for a massive hydroelectric project here in a remote gorge of the North Cascades. Three dams soon powered the rise of what would become one of America’s richest and most liberal cities. The Skagit River dams, the first of which was completed in 1926, […]
Every one of the world’s 50 hottest cities was located inside India at the end of April—a global weather-tracking anomaly, according to a major air-quality monitoring platform. As an unusual early-season heat wave gripped the country, average peak temperatures across the most sweltering cities hit around 112 degrees Fahrenheit on April 27, data from the […]
Scientists said this week that a developing El Niño is likely to amplify heatwaves, droughts and floods this year, but warned that the long-term warming caused by burning fossil fuels remains the main driver of climate extremes. El Niño is the warm phase of a semi-regular temperature oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, during which […]
The Trump Administration on Tuesday finalized its repeal of the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, better known as the Public Lands Rule, which gave conservation activities on federal land equal priority with extractive uses like mining and logging. It’s the latest in what is now a long series of decisions from […]