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A Giant Organic Farm Faces Criticism That It's Harming The Environment
Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without a big food company making promises to deliver products from green, sustainable farms. Turning those promises into reality, though, can be complicated.Take...
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The White House Wants To Fight Climate Change And Help People. Cleveland Led...
The fight against climate change may be taking a striking new turn under the Biden administration. The White House is calling climate action a form of environmental justice, part of a campaign to...
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What's The Best Way To Help The Climate And People, Too? Home Improvement
Workmen have invaded Flora Dillard's house on the east side of Cleveland. There's plastic over everything and no place to sit, but Dillard doesn't seem to mind. "A couple of days of inconvenience is...
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Bringing Back Trees To 'Forest City's' Redlined Areas Helps Residents And The...
On the corner of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue, in Cleveland, Shirley Bell-Wheeler watches over a community garden with freshly planted raspberries, purple asparagus and a little apple...
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For The Climate And Fairness, Take Buses And Sidewalks Before Electric Cars
If you have a car in Cleveland, you can get anywhere in the county in 15 minutes. And that is both the blessing and curse of the area's road network, says Freddy Collier, the city director of...
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The Food Industry May Be Finally Paying Attention To Its Weakness To...
A recent ransomware attack on the world's biggest meatpacker is raising questions about cybersecurity in the food industry and about whether the industry is so concentrated in a few hands it is more...
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Elsa Has Regained Hurricane Strength, Lashing The Florida Gulf Coast
Updated July 6, 2021 at 10:43 PM ETAfter battering the Florida peninsula for much of the day, Elsa has regained its status as a hurricane with winds of 75 mph.The National Hurricane Center says that...
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Four More Bodies Found As Search Accelerates After Demolition Of Surfside Condo
Updated July 5, 2021 at 7:34 PM ETFour more bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the collapsed condo tower in Surfside, Fl., bringing the total death toll to 28. A total of 117 individuals...
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Why Clearing Brazil's Forests For Farming Can Make It Harder To Grow Crops
Millions of acres of Brazil's forest and grasslands have been cleared over the past 30 years to grow soybeans, making the country the world's biggest soybean producer. But the deforestation that...
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Without Enough Water To Go Around, Farmers In California Are Exhausting...
Updated July 23, 2021 at 10:29 AM ETThe next time you pick up some California-grown carrots or melons in the grocery store, consider the curious, contested odyssey of the water that fed them. Chances...
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A Drift-Prone Weedkiller Still Damages Crops And Trees, Despite Attempts To...
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Climate Scientists Have Announced A Landmark Warning About The Future Of The...
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Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming
As the world's top climate scientists released a report full of warnings this week, they kept insisting that the world still has a chance to avoid the worst effects of climate change."It is still...
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Our Future On A Hotter Planet Means More Climate Disasters Happening...
While the Gulf Coast and the Northeast struggle with flooding and power outages, it's easy to forget that wildfires are still raging in the West.It's a taste of a future when simultaneous disasters...
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Countries Promised To Cut Greenhouse Emissions, The UN Says They Are Failing
The United Nations is warning that most countries have failed to uphold promises to make deep cuts to greenhouse gas pollution, in order to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. Under...
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Water is scarce in California. But farmers have found ways to store it...
Aaron Fukuda admits that the 15-acre sunken field behind his office doesn't look like much. It's basically a big, wide hole in the ground behind the headquarters of the Tulare Irrigation District, in...
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New protections for California's aquifers are reshaping the state's Central...
California's agricultural empire is facing a shakeup, as a state law comes into effect that will limit many farmers' access to water.The seven-year-old law is supposed to stop the over-pumping from...
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Satellites reveal the secrets of water-guzzling farms in California
In a new push to stop further depletion of California's shrinking aquifers, state regulators are turning to technology once used to count Soviet missile silos during the Cold War: satellites....
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The COP26 summit to fight climate change is about to start. Here's what to...
A climate extravaganza will get underway in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday. President Biden will show up. So will other world leaders and a small city's worth of diplomats, business executives and...
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Biodiesel is booming. It may help the climate, but there's a big...
Ed Cinco of Youngstown, Ohio, has a problem. He's the director of purchasing for Schwebel's Baking Company and he can't get enough soybean oil, a key ingredient in the company's bread and buns....
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From a place of privilege, she speaks the truth about climate to power
When I first reached Maria Laura Rojas and told her that I was looking for people in Colombia who'd been affected by climate change, she was hesitant to be interviewed. She figured I was looking for...
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A lot is riding on the COP26 global climate summit, but broken promises stall...
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PHOTOS: Cyclones and salty water are a threat. These women are finding...
Sufia Khatun says big cyclones used to hit her community of Morrelganj, in southwest Bangladesh, once every quarter-century or so. Now, she says, "we experience a big cyclone [every] two to three...
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'We're not where we need to be,' says U.N. climate chief
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World leaders are gathering in Scotland for the U.N. Climate Summit
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Biden administration proposes rules to cut climate-warming methane emissions
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Latest climate pledges could limit global temperature rise, a new report says
If nations honor their latest pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the rise in average global temperatures by the end of the century could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius, a new analysis by...
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Halfway through COP26, here's what has happened so far and what lies ahead
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Draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit looks to rapidly speed up...
A draft agreement being circulated at the United Nations climate summit that's underway in Scotland calls on countries to phase out coal power and to flesh out deeper cuts in carbon emissions by next...
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As climate talks come to a close, not all the countries there are on the same...
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Negotiators are in the home stretch on the final day of UN climate conference
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Climate negotiations at COP26 center on timeline and aid to developing...
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World leaders commit to ambitious goals at U.N. climate summit
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Carbon trading gets a green light from the U.N., and Brazil hopes to earn...
Carbon emissions trading is poised to go global, and billions of dollars — maybe even trillions — could be at stake. That's thanks tolast month's U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Scotland, which approved...
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Scientists are working to figure out how climate change influences tornadoes
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Most nations are promising to end deforestation, but skeptics want proof
A pledge to halt and reverse deforestation around the world turned into one of the biggest, flashiest announcements at last month's UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. By the time UK Prime Minister...
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With the loss of Manchin's vote, Biden's climate change agenda may be doomed
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In 2021, climate ambitions soared and crashed in the U.S. and around the world
After four years of near-silence about climate change in the White House, 2021 brought an abrupt shift. President Biden turned it into one of the defining issues of his presidency, proposing ambitious...
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A satellite finds massive methane leaks from gas pipelines
There's new evidence, collected from orbiting satellites, that oil and gas companies are routinely venting huge amounts of methane into the air.Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas, the fuel....
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How dairy farmers are cashing in on California's push for cleaner fuel
California is trying to cut greenhouse emissions from the state's cars and trucks, and in a controversial twist, its efforts are putting cash in the pockets of dairy farms across the country. It's the...
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To fight climate change, and now Russia, too, Zurich turns off natural gas
European officials are debating whether they can stop buying natural gas imports from Russia. Many say it can't be done. But the biggest city in Switzerland — Zurich — is already taking ambitious steps...
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Meet the California farmers awash in Colorado River water, even in a drought
EL CENTRO, Calif. — A few hundred farms in the southern tip of California, along the Mexican border, may hold the key to saving the drought-plagued Colorado River from collapse.These farmers, in...
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'Water batteries' could store solar and wind power for when it's needed
The San Diego County Water Authority has an unusual plan to use the city's scenic San Vicente Reservoir to store solar power so it's available after sunset. The project, and others like it, could help...
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Could this cheaper, more climate-friendly perennial rice transform farming?
Thousands of farmers in China have started to grow a remarkable new version of rice, one that realizes an old scientific dream. It's a perennial form of the grain, which doesn't have to be planted anew...
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Reformist farmers in California are rethinking water
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Some of America's biggest vegetable growers fought for water. Then the water...
Late in the afternoon on November 14, a historic email landed in the inboxes of hundreds of California farmers whose land lies within the Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural irrigation...
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Wind and solar projects are growing, but many can't actually connect to the...
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Why growing wind and solar projects can't connect to the grid
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Why there's a storm brewing about global food aid from the U.S.
Workers for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti got a stomach-turning surprise last year when they swung open the doors of some 20-foot-long shipping containers. Insects had infested thousands of bags of...
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