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On the Front Lines of a Warming Arctic: How Inuit Bear Guards Are Keeping Communities Safe Amid Climate Shifts By Indigenous News Alliance NUNATSIAVUT — After retiring from a long…
California Embraces Balcony Solar, Paving the Way for a New Era of Renewable Energy Access
As free and abundant as sunlight may be, harnessing its power has historically remained a stubbornly difficult endeavor for everyday homeowners. While the cost of solar energy has plummeted by…
Trump Administration Dismantles Federal Auto Emissions Rules, Leaving California to Defend Climate Policy
The Trump administration moved aggressively to dismantle the federal government’s oversight of greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles, finalizing a plan to substantially ease fuel-efficiency standards. This latest regulatory shift…
Colorado Ranchers Push Back Against Big Oil as High Court Weighs Landmark Climate Liability Case
Deirdre Macnab was reading her local newspaper this spring when she learned that Rio Blanco County, where she lives in northwest Colorado, had taken a decisive side in a major…
Indigenous Leadership and Governance Are Vital to Global Climate Resilience, New Report Warns
From the snow-swept territories of Canada to the lush basins of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the rugged mountains of Nepal, Indigenous lands are increasingly on the frontline of planetary change.…
Nebraskans couldn’t escape the heat this summer — not even at night
For Wilson-Johnson, who grew up in the city, the experience of a Nebraska summer has fundamentally shifted. She fondly remembers a time when summer nights brought a natural, refreshing cool,…
State Climate Superfund Laws Face Legal Hurdles, But Lawmakers Push Forward Ahead of High-Stakes Supreme Court Battle
Last week, another federal judge blocked New York’s landmark “climate superfund law,” delivering a significant setback to the state’s ambitious attempt to make major fossil fuel companies pay billions of…
Prospectors Stake Uranium Claims Immediately as Bears Ears National Monument Shrinks
It didn’t take long for prospectors and local miners to stake their claims on public lands in southeast Utah that were recently stripped of their protected status within the Bears…
How Decades of Corporate Capture Paved the Way for the Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Universities
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, he made it abundantly clear to America’s institutions of higher education that federal financial support would henceforth come with…
Tom Cruise and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Digger’ Struggles Under the Weight of Climate Parable
If you scroll down through the "Carbon Majors" database—the roster of 178 corporate producers collectively responsible for the lion’s share of the world’s historical fossil fuel emissions—you will eventually encounter…