All Environment
- After Supreme Court ruling, can EPA still tackle climate change?
A Supreme Court ruling limits Environmental Protection Agency leeway to regulate greenhouse gases, at a time when Congress hasn’t been acting on the issue.
- The ExplainerHeat waves: How to cope with new extremes
Heat waves are getting more frequent and extreme. Here’s what communities are doing to beat back the heat and protect public health.
- Drinking water in short supply? There’s a solution in the air.
Drought: As the world gets drier and hotter, reliable access to water is becoming a greater challenge – lending urgency to innovations that could pull water right out of the air.
- Aiming for ‘net zero’ carbon emissions – even in Louisiana oil country?
Louisiana is the first Southern state with a climate action plan. With it comes the chance to lead by example in the nation’s petrochemical corridor.
- Points of ProgressNature takes over: Kenyan wastewater, US toxic dump turned wetland
Progress roundup: Time and ingenuity produce a hydroponic waste treatment system in Kenya, and a Superfund site becomes a wetland in Ohio.
- First LookWhy Germany wants an emission-cutters fast lane
At the G-7 summit, Germany is pushing a plan for countries to join together in a ‘climate club' to tackle global warming at a quicker pace. Who's in?
- Points of ProgressEasing daily life for families, from Morocco to Vietnam
Progress roundup: Poverty reduction, parental leave, and how governments and big institutions can effect positive change for societies.
- Cover Story‘River of Grass’: Inside the quest to restore the Everglades
Restoration projects in the Florida Everglades are gathering momentum as new money flows in and long-slowed initiatives advance. Will it all work?
- Power plants that burn wood: Renewable energy or major polluters?
Is it honest and accurate to count power plants fueled by wood as clean energy? It’s a burning issue, literally, in the European Union and beyond.
- Points of ProgressTree stumps and old phones as solutions, not throwaways
Progress roundup: Farmers who let trees regenerate in their fields improved crops. And to reduce e-waste, one country subsidizes electronics repairs.
- ‘For the Birds’: Music project celebrates birdsong to save it
A new project, led by a sought-after Hollywood music pro, hopes to bring attention to birds and their songs – and the preservation of both.
- ‘Stop fighting Mother Nature.’ How farmers adapt to extreme weather.
With scientists forecasting extreme weather as a new normal, farmers are looking to regenerative practices that can build resilience into their soil.
- Points of ProgressBeach and river cleanups: Strange finds, and fish fertilizer for sale
In our progress roundup, volunteers are cleaning up river trash by the ton, and others are making something useful out of the waste left by fishers cleaning their catch.
- ‘We can’t wait’: Grassroots solutions ease flooding in New Orleans
In New Orleans, as the government struggles to respond to climate change, neighborhood coalitions are taking the initiative to find – and implement – solutions.
- First LookIndy 500 waves green flag for sustainability with lofty goals
At this weekend’s Indy 500, fans can buy T-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. They’re one of the many initiatives – along with renewable tires – contributing to the goal of holding carbon-neutral races by 2050.
- How climate change ‘doomerism’ fuels violent extremism
Finding that messages of alarm can lead to despair – and even violent extremism – climate activists are increasingly urging action grounded in hope.
- First LookHow nine schoolgirls stood up for Ecuador's Amazon and won
In 2021, nine schoolgirls sued the Ecuadorean government, saying the use of flares by oil companies in the Amazon violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment. They won their case, but a year later, they’re still fighting to protect their community.
- Points of ProgressGreen energy from sewage, and furniture from plastic waste
Progress roundup: An Oregon county funds cogeneration water plant, Dutch open-source nonprofit helps refugees make new plastics from old, and more.
- Difference MakerMeet the volunteers maintaining the Appalachian Trail
Dedication. Love. Humility. Those are just a few of the qualities volunteers who maintain the Appalachian Trail bring to the paths year after year.
- FocusHow Florida became the leader in fighting fire with fire
When you fight fire with fire, the problem and solution look identical. But planning and discretion distinguish controlled burns from wildfires – and help combat them.