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A new satellite will track climate-warming pollution. Here's why that's a big deal
Enlarge this image A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts into space. On board is a satellite with a climate solutions mission....
The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says
Enlarge this image Hurricane Irene caused enormous damage in New York state, flooding homes like this one in Prattsville...
ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action
Enlarge this image The ExxonMobil logo appears above a trading post at the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew/AP hide...
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
Enlarge this image A registered scavenger, who mainly collects plastic waste to sell, walking in a landfill in Indonesia...
Across the world, migrating animal populations are dwindling. Here's why
Enlarge this image Ninety-seven percent of migratory fish species are facing extinction. Whale sharks, the world's large...
EPA tightens rules on some air pollution for the first time in over a decade
Enlarge this image Air pollution has fallen across the U.S. since the Clean Air Act of 1970. But some areas, like Los An...
U.S. pauses build-out of natural gas export terminals to weigh climate impacts
Enlarge this image A boat sails down the Calcasieu Ship Channel past Cameron LNG, one of three liquified natural gas exp...
'Hot droughts' are becoming more common in the arid West, new study finds
Enlarge this image Hotter than normal temperatures are exacerbating the megadrought that's depleted Western water reserv...
Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light
Enlarge this image We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans p...
U.S. cut climate pollution in 2023, but not fast enough to limit global warming
Enlarge this image The James H. Miller Jr. Electric Generating Plant in Adamsville, Alabama is a coal-fired facility. In...
Venice will limit tour groups to 25 people and ban loudspeakers to control tourism
Enlarge this image Tourists enjoy a gondola ride on the Grand Canal by the Rialto bridge in Venice in 2021. Marco Bertor...
Wildfire smoke this year woke up places unaccustomed to its effects. Now what?
A helicopter flies above a wildfire burning in Canada this summer. Smoke from these wildfires floated hundreds of miles,...
2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments
Enlarge this image The Wahweap Marina, squeezed by the dropping and encroaching shoreline of Lake Powell on the Colorado...
Offshore wind in the U.S. hit headwinds in 2023. Here's what you need to know
Enlarge this image The Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island is one of several projects in the U.S. 2023...
