Climate & Energy
Climate feedback loops, the energy transition, and the cascading consequences of a warming world.
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Climate & Energy
The Quiet Collapse Beneath the Food System: What Three Climate Stories Reveal
A food catastrophe warning, flawed BECCS accounting, and a solar farm dispute are not separate stories — they are pressure points on the same breaking system.
Climate & Energy
Corpus Christi Faces September Water Emergency as Drought Tightens Its Grip on Texas Coast
Corpus Christi's water system is nearing a breaking point, and the industrial economy that drives the city may be part of what's draining it.
Climate & Energy
How a Surrey Activist Rewrote UK Climate Law From a Local Planning Notice
A planning notice in a local paper led Sarah Finch to the UK Supreme Court, and to a ruling that permanently changed how Britain counts fossil fuel emissions.
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19 Apr 2026
Lahaina Rebuilds on Its Own Terms, Two Years After the Deadliest U.S. Wildfire
After wildfire, historic flooding, and immigration raids, Lahaina's residents are fighting to rebuild their town for themselves — not for the tourism economy.
19 Apr 2026
Texas's Dying Oil Wells Are Trapping Landowners in a Legal and Financial Limbo
Across Texas, thousands of low-producing oil wells are legally trapping landowners in leases that pay almost nothing while blocking better opportunities.
19 Apr 2026
The Sea Level Blind Spot Putting Tens of Millions at Hidden Flood Risk
Scientists have found a blind spot in coastal flood modeling that puts tens of millions of people far from the shoreline at serious and underestimated risk.
18 Apr 2026
How a US–Iran War Could Quietly Drain the World's Climate Finance Pipeline
A US–Iran war won't just reshape oil markets. It may quietly gut the climate finance commitments that developing nations are counting on to survive.
17 Apr 2026
The Everglades Phosphorus Problem That 40 Years of Restoration Couldn't Fix
After nearly 40 years and billions spent, the Everglades still can't meet a new pollution standard — and the reasons run deeper than any filter can fix.
17 Apr 2026
Brazil Wants a State-Owned Rare Earths Giant. The Timing Could Not Be More Strategic.
Brazil's lawmakers want a state-owned rare earths company. In the middle of a U.S.-China mineral war, that ambition carries enormous strategic weight.
15 Apr 2026
The Bronx River's Hidden Migration Crisis: How Dams Are Silencing a Ancient Fish Run
River herring have swum the Bronx River for centuries, but aging dams are cutting off their spawning runs and quietly unraveling an entire food web.
15 Apr 2026
Britain's Butterflies Are Splitting Into Winners and Losers, and the Gap Is Widening
More than half of Britain's 58 native butterfly species are declining, and the split between winners and losers reveals something deeper than population counts.
15 Apr 2026
The Iran War's Hidden Climate Dividend: IEA Cuts Oil Demand Forecast by Nearly 1 Million Barrels
The Iran conflict has forced a dramatic IEA demand revision, and the behavioral changes it's triggering may outlast the war itself.
15 Apr 2026
Hurricane Helene Stripped Appalachian Farms of Their Topsoil. Recovery Is Generational.
Hurricane Helene stripped away centuries of built topsoil in hours. For Appalachian farmers, the recovery timeline is measured in generations.
