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DOE Restarts Home Efficiency Rebates, and Electrification Is the Biggest Loser
Federal energy efficiency rebate programs will no longer cover a switch from fossil fuels to electricity for heating, according to long-awaited guidance from the Department of Energy. The department published an update …
Coral Reefs in French Polynesia Are Stuck Between Life and Death
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On the island of Moorea, in French Polynesia, deep green volcanic mountains slope from high peaks down towards the sea. But they don’t stop at the shore. The ridgelines o…
Shanxi coal mine blast kills 82, injures 120
A May 22 coal mine blast in Shanxi’s Liushenyu mine killed 82 and injured 120, exposing years of ignored methane risks and illegal safety violations. Experts say proper safeguards could have prevented it, but China’s co…
As bad as things got in Los Angeles in January 2025, when 31 people died and more than 16,000 buildings were destroyed by wildfires roaring into residential ne…
FOLKSTON, Ga.—The world’s smallest heron hops from blade to blade in a patch of tall grass, testing its footing above the dark water as it searches for an even…
The world’s largest meat company is preparing to build a sprawling industrial beef operation in Nigeria—its first on the African continent—but has not revealed…
A vast swamp in southeast Georgia, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is an environmental wonderland: a protected wilderness of blackwater channels, peat …
Rescue teams airlifted dozens of families in Deir Az Zor after the Euphrates River flooded, submerging farmland and collapsing a bridge, leaving residents isol…
The mountain jewelflower, or Caulanthus amplexicaulis, is a resilient California wildflower that may aid the survival of other plant species amid climate chang…
The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption may have unintentionally reduced atmospheric methane via stratospheric reactions. Satellite data showed a formaldeh…
Colombia’s Mavecure Mountains feature three dramatic 2,000-foot sandstone buttes sacred to Indigenous Puinave and Curipaco communities. Once overshadowed by co…
Sávio Bortolini Pimentel just missed getting on the roster to represent his national team, Brazil, at the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. At the time…
Louisiana must choose between strategically planning for managed retreat due to rising seas and land loss, or risk letting disasters dictate its future. The st…
From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with author Terry Tempest Willia…
