More Americans are exposed to polluted air in the United States. See where. An estimated 33.5 million children in the United States — or nearly half of people under 18 — live in an area that received a failing grade for at least one measure of air pollution.

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In a previously unaired interview, Jane Goodall delivers a call to action “Just do something,” the noted conservationist urged in the months before she died. She advised followers to “act locally first” in the face of intractable global problems.

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DOE ordered Indiana coal plant to run despite owner’s objection In a letter, CenterPoint Energy Indiana labeled the plant "unreliable" and said it would need "substantial investment."

forcing utilities to keep coal plants open is not something one expects to see

Opinion | Why Democrats are failing to reach young voters like me Some in the party don’t understand the attention economy or how to communicate.

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Wise advice from a young person.

Norway Reopens Annual Whale Hunt Despite Pressure to End Commercial Whaling - Inside Climate News As demand for whale meat declines at home, Norway exports it to Japan, markets it to tourists and sells it online as dog food.

How can this still be happening?
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Surprise inspection finds ICE stuffing migrants 'like sardines' into a facility with no bed, showers Three lawmakers visited a Mesa ICE facility unannounced and found overcrowding, with 250 detainees packed into rooms "like sardines"

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said, fighting back tears. The Tucson Democrat described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “It is frightening in there,” Grijalva said. “It is disgusting.”

The trump-truck effect

Volkswagen to End E.V. Production at Tennessee Plant www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/b...

Clean Energy Slate Wins Control of Arizona’s Biggest Utility

Interesting alliances are a win for clean energy in AZ.

Clean Energy Slate Wins Control of Arizona’s Biggest Utility www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Strongest El Niño in a century? What this rare phenomenon could bring. The chances for a planet-warming super El Niño this year are rising, according to an updated model forecast issued by ECMWF on Sunday.

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A Free Home for San Francisco Artists, From Dave Eggers and Friends

A happy story:
A Free Home for San Francisco Artists, From Dave Eggers and Friends www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/a...

Video: Australia Skies Turn Blood Red Ahead of Tropical Cyclone A fiery red sky covered Western Australia as Tropical Cyclone Narelle approached on Friday.

Australia Skies Turn Blood Red Ahead of Tropical Cyclone www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition

The Iran War is Revealing the Messy Middle of Our Renewable Energy Transition www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...

NO KINGS [Human Banner-SF Ocean Beach] · No Kings **We have the power and are claiming it together. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.** What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading fr...

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FEMA to Relaunch Climate Resiliency Grants, Complying With Court Order

Judges once again restore some sanity.

FEMA to Relaunch Climate Resiliency Grants, Complying With Court Order www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/c...

The Dangerous Logic of the Joe Kent Letter The conspiracist anti-war activist completely misunderstood the movement and the president he served.

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Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 520,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $2.59 billion in annual productivity losses.

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Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing…

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A global study using Indigenous and local knowledge across three continents finds bird communities shifting toward smaller species over the past 80 years — suggesting widespread loss of larger birds.

Confidential database reveals which items NPS thinks may ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

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1984 redux

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants

Okay MAHA, let’s see you flex your pro health muscles.

E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...

[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union · MoveOn At the State of the Union (SOTU), Republicans in Congress are once again bending the knee to Trump and hanging their constituents out to dry. Nobody should participate in Trump’s vanity project, and t...

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands

No mining in the #BoundaryWaters

Teddy Roosevelt’s Family Urges G.O.P. to Protect Public Lands www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

Eddie Harris & Les McCann - Compared To What (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1969) YouTube video by Eddie Harris

Compared To What

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Bella Ciao!
Everyone knows it

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Demand Brazil’s President Lula Protect the Amazon’s Rivers | Amazon Watch For more than three weeks, over 800 Indigenous peoples from the Tapajós River region have blockaded the grain terminal of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, demanding that President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

Demand Brazil’s President Lula Protect the Amazon’s Rivers amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power - Inside Climate News Climate and security experts say the plan is outdated and could place the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage.

An executive order President Trump plans to announce Wednesday will order the Defense Department to buy coal power, something climate and security experts say will put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage. My latest for @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1002202...

National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL.

Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers.

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Hold Chevron Accountable! From deep in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador to the shores of Venezuela and the Gulf South, Chevron has left a trail of devastation, including oil spills, climate catastrophes, and toxic pollution. ...

From deep in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador to the shores of Venezuela and the Gulf South, Chevron has left a trail of devastation. Tell your Congresspeople to hold Chevron accountable!
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Washington Post Scales Back Climate Team as Bezos Caves to Trump The Washington Post is drastically scaling back its climate change desk, just a little over three years after proudly tripling the size of a team of reporters, editors, data journalists, and graphic a...

Washington Post Scales Back Climate Team as Bezos Caves to Trump www.theenergymix.com/washington-p...