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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Thursday, tens of millions of Americans will partake in a national ritual many of us say we don’t especially enjoy or find meaning in. We will collectively eat more than 40 million turkeys—factory farmed and heavily engineered animals that bear scant resemblance to the wild birds […]

Fossil fuel lobbyists overwhelmed the COP30 climate negotiations in Brazil.

The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.

The Trump administration has been quietly easing regulations on the nation’s toxic forever chemicals.

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not often that the governors of California and Florida are on the same page, but this week they’re aligned in opposition to the White House’s latest plan to expand offshore oil drilling near both their shores.  The Trump […]

For many environmental advocates, the COP30 climate negotiations ended this weekend in disappointment. The annual United Nations conference, which brought together more than 190 countries in Belém, Brazil, concluded without any firm plans to phase out fossil fuels—a key step scientists say is urgently necessary to address the climate crisis. In part, experts say, that’s […]

We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She discussed her father’s legacy and her ongoing work to protect the Amazon rainforest from encroachment by ranching and mining industries. “They come here, build their companies, bringing death to the territories, bringing death for the forests and threatening the peoples of the forest,” Mendes said, speaking to Democracy Now! at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém.

Urban digital twins pull together tremendous amounts of data to realistically model cities, but they’ve been missing a critical ingredient: people.