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More than half of global sulfur hexafluoride emissions, a climate pollutant 24,300 times worse than CO2, come from China. An inexpensive recycling program could help slash emissions, an Inside Climate News analysis concludes.

Grasslands are crucial for carbon storage, wildlife and water quality, but they’re shrinking across North America, according to a new survey.

High prices on diesel and mixed messaging around renewable fuels imperil Republican-held seats in Iowa.

Most of the world’s shallow reefs could collapse in the next 50 years, a new assessment warns.

When PFAS concentrations fall below laboratory reporting limits, they are sometimes treated as zero. A new study suggests this practice may be hiding low levels of contamination in U.S. drinking water.

A Boeing spokesperson said the company obtained the needed Ventura County permits for the demolition and has prepared ahead of time for the environmental impacts.

Extreme heat waves are predictable hazards, so they should be preventable disasters, climate and resilience experts say. But countries are struggling.

A new report suggests PFAS are prevalent in Florida waterways, part of a widespread contamination of the “forever chemicals” in waterways across the country.

Alaska’s tight Senate race revolves around fishing, energy and high prices. Climate change is a key factor, but the candidates are largely avoiding the issue.

Did you ever notice how the talking points against data centers have a lot of overlap with those against wind and solar? Let’s unpack this.

The far-flung global food system has turned into an “agribusiness financial complex,” critics say.

Britain wants a “golden age” of nuclear power. What will it mean for nature?

From wheelchair accessible kayak ramps to night sky observatories and new lodging, the Okefenokee region is in store for change following an historic UNESCO designation.

Development banks loan big agribusiness companies hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Critics say the funds conflict with the banks’ missions and recent efforts to “green” their lending.

If Democrats succeed in winning the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993, energy and environmental reform could follow.

Methane gas billows from oil wells, blasts out of pressure valves on pipelines, wafts from sprawling gas processing plants and rises up in clouds when companies air out systems during routine maintenance in the oilfields.

Federal lawmakers want to ban wild sloth imports to the U.S. after dozens of the animals died at a planned Florida tourist attraction called Sloth World.

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they’re living on top of oilfields—which can leak and present future liabilities.

It’s a data center election in Ohio, and that could be bad news for Republicans and boost Democrats’ odds of regaining control of the U.S. Senate.

Floating offshore wind is surviving through international collaboration and government support, but those partnerships have been tested under the Trump administration.

How climate anxiety and heat waves pushed students to the brink—and contributed to a historic youth movement taking over France.

A Superfund saga continues in Pensacola, Florida, as the county prepares for groundwater cleanup at the site known locally as “Mount Dioxin.”

Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin—all are states with congressional races that will decide control of Congress. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has been visiting the districts in a tour that raises questions about the line between policy and politics.

The burden of America’s aquaculture industry lies in the factories of poor countries, where communities live with foul air, broken sleep and the stench of rotting fish.

A former employee believes North Carolina’s fisheries agency should be dissolved and rebuilt “from the ground up.”

Florida farmers are turning to regenerative agriculture to build healthier soil and withstand climate extremes—from droughts to floods.

What if preparing for wildfires started with the people who live in their paths? As France grapples with increasingly destructive fires, some U.S. communities are experimenting with giving residents a bigger role in preparing before disaster strikes.

The remnants of Hurricane Isaias killed Devolin “Bobo” Webster when a tree crashed into his home in Alabama. As hurricanes continue to intensify, so too will impacts further inland.

Researchers used seismic data from Nepal and China to piece together what happened during August’s deadly flood. Their findings also highlight gaps in monitoring and data sharing across the Himalaya.

At a meeting in Cheyenne last month, the Wyoming Water Development Commission voted to no longer pursue creating a tool to measure water lost during irrigation in its portion of the Colorado River basin. Among the project’s hangups—a lack of landowner buy-in and higher costs.

While we might know what food we eat, we don’t always know what the food we eat is fed. In the case of farmed fish, it might be carcinogenic fire retardants.

After years of enthusiasm from politicians from both parties, Pennsylvania’s hydrogen hubs face an uncertain future.

From human sewage and seaweed, to maggots and worms, the livestock industry’s search for more sustainable alternatives to fishmeal has gone nowhere.

The prospect of unchecked data center development has galvanized a cross-section of Ohio residents.

America needs lithium for electric vehicles. But the clean-energy transition isn’t just about batteries. It’s also about water, drought and who gets to decide what “clean” really means.

In the tiny historically Black Florida community of Whitted, the drinking water is brown. Research shows communities such as Whitted tend to have less access to clean water.

Mediterranean aquaculture is tied to overfishing in West African waters, food insecurity overseas and labor abuses.

A crude oil pipeline spill in the Detroit suburbs has gotten little public attention but has caused federal regulators to initiate a nationwide investigation into the safety of all the hazardous liquid pipelines operated by the Dallas-based industry giant Energy Transfer.

U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier of California, who has worked to improve refinery safety after five men died at the same Martinez plant in the 1990s, wants to see a systematic shift that prioritizes people over profits.

The U.S. government will no longer require environmental reviews for oil exploration in the fragile and rapidly warming Western Arctic.

The SEC issued a rare report this week putting investors on notice that some climate risk advocacy could trigger investigations. The focus was a campaign against ExxonMobil.

In the most landlocked region of the planet, aquaculture is booming. But fueling the industry’s rapid growth is forced labor.

Baltimore residents saw two opposite moves on incineration within days: Maryland moved to shut down a medical incinerator while Baltimore County voted to renew a contract with the city’s biggest source of pollution, Win Waste trash incinerator.

Adult bookstores, landfills, utility-scale solar. These are among the land uses deemed undesirable in the comprehensive plan issued by an Indiana county.

New research shows 75 percent of tropical forests were disrupted by extreme heat and drought during the 2023-24 El Niño, and that fire-derived ozone is eroding their capacity to absorb carbon dioxide.

What do River Phoenix and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have in common? They both stoked the ire of the livestock industry.

European supermarkets are pushing the fishing industry to be more sustainable. Failure to do so might leave the continent’s supermarkets without mackerel.

Alabama will now require more public disclosures around data centers, but stopped short of requiring each project be approved by its utility commission.

A batch of newly disclosed internal documents show ExxonMobil scientists questioning the company’s claims on its preferred climate solutions.

Warehouses. Data centers. Tax breaks. Development has become a key issue in a highly contested New York House race.