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As hurricane season nears in Puerto Rico, a doctor tries to help pregnant...
Yahaira Molina Perez was 8 months pregnant when Hurricane Maria hit. In her town of Cidra, downed trees and power lines made roads almost impassable.Molina wasn't too worried, though — she wasn’t due...
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A struggling mining town in Ukraine looks to one of their own as leading...
Yury Milobog, a local deputy in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih in eastern Ukraine, likes to tell the story of how he once helped presidential hopeful Volodmyr Zelenskiy participate in a comedy show...
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Earth Day: Species at risk
Earth Day Network, the organizing group that leads Earth Day worldwide, is focusing its efforts for the annual event in 2019 by identifying 14 species that are key to their ecosystems and face...
View ArticleNewly confirmed interior secretary suppressed information on pesticide risks,...
Former oil and agribusiness lobbyist David Bernhardt is the Trump administration’s new secretary of the interior and, like his predecessor Ryan Zinke, he is already dogged by allegations of ethical...
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The latest culprit in El Salvador’s coffee industry decline? Climate change.
The elderly woman walked through the field of baby coffee plants, watering them one by one. It was another bad year.She has worked here since she was a kid — she reckons she has done just about every...
View ArticleWith eyes on the presidency, Mayor Pete seeks a 'generational alliance' to...
Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is riding a wave of media attention as he campaigns to be the next United States president. He’s making the future of America a...
View ArticleChina's Xi says Belt and Road must be green, sustainable
In a speech opening a summit on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), President Xi Jinping said the massive infrastructure project must be green and sustainable.Xi's plan to rebuild the old Silk Road...
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'Romeo and Juliet' give hope for survival of the Sehuencas water frog
Sehuencas water frogs, like other amphibians, have been devastated by the chytrid fungus. A frog that scientists named “Romeo” was the last known of his kind and had stopped singing for a mate. But...
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Microplastics have even been blown into a remote corner of the Pyrenees
Microplastics have been discovered in a remote area of the French Pyrenees mountains. The particles traveled through the atmosphere and were blown into the once-pristine region by the wind, according...
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Unprecedented floods in Iran have brought people together
Since March, Iran has been ravaged by record rainfall and unprecedented flash flooding. At least 26 of 31 provinces have been impacted by the deadly floods. One city received 70% of its annual rainfall...
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Earth Day has come and gone, but the work continues
Every April 22 since 1970, we celebrate Earth Day. And since that first Earth Day, the water in the US is cleaner and local air less polluted, but carbon pollution of the planet's entire atmosphere has...
View Article'Flight shame' in Sweden prompts rail-only travel movement
Planes, trains and automobiles? For Swedish climate activists, only the trains will do.Swedish activist, and 16-year-old student, Greta Thunberg, just finished a European tour to raise awareness about...
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Is an 'insect apocalypse' happening? How would we know?
Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate plants, prey on insects that we don’t get along with, and to be movers and shakers for Earth’s ecosystems....
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Lawsuit accusing ExxonMobil of ignoring risks from climate change moves forward
ExxonMobil has another climate-related lawsuit on its hands.In 2018, the State of New York sued the company, alleging it misled investors and the public about the impacts of burning fossil fuels on the...
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In Iceland, turning CO2 into rock could be a big breakthrough for carbon capture
This report was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Iceland is known for its unique landscape — it can even seem otherworldly. Drive about a half hour east of Reykjavik,...
View ArticleScientists warn a million species at risk of extinction
Scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world that relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has...
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Why reducing carbon emissions from cars and trucks will be so hard
A growing number of cities, states and countries aim to dramatically reduce or even eliminate carbon emissions to avert catastrophic levels of climate change.Ideas about how to get this done as soon as...
View ArticleHBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ revisits nuclear catastrophe with a nod to climate change
On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded and started a fire during a safety test. By the time the fire was contained, the incident — one...
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The meatless Whopper’s ‘Impossible’ goal: To save the planet
The Whopper is an icon of American culture. But the Whopper is getting a complete overhaul — and when we say complete, we literally mean complete. It’s also a new Whopper with a bold goal: To save the...
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Is 'new economics' the way to save the planet?
The science is in: The endless pursuit of economic growth is devouring the foundations of life on Earth, and no country — rich or poor — can expect to escape dire consequences if things go on as they...
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