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Pennsylvania’s Legislature Is Likely to Punt on Mass Transit Funding—Again
PHILADELPHIA—Four days before the deadline for Pennsylvania’s legislature to pass its next budget and eight days before Philadelphia celebrated America’s 250th birthday, a crowd of transportation advo
China Briefing 9 July 2026: Guangxi floods | ‘Beautiful China’ plan | New EU-China mechanism
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s China Briefing. China Briefing handpicks and explains the most important climate... The post China Briefing 9 July 2026: Guangxi floods | ‘Beautiful China’ plan | New EU-Chin
Japan examines air conditioning reliance amid heatwaves
Japan’s heavy reliance on air conditioning to combat rising summer heat strains the power grid and boosts carbon emissions, undermining climate goals, despite preventing heatstroke deaths. Authorities
Four years ago, the New York State Legislature made a major move to better protect wetlands. Now some of those safeguards are delayed for potentially several m…
Oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide long after visible growth stops, storing it in roots and branches rather than converting it to wood. This means forests…
Two baby raccoons disrupted a Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium before being safely trapped; no injuries occurred, and the game continued. Urban wildlife frequent…
Volkswagen uses 100 sheep to maintain grass at its 150-hectare solar farm in Poznań, Poland, cutting costs and pioneering agrivoltaics to boost biodiversity an…
The U.S. Forest Service Tuesday approved a proposed mine in southern Arizona that will extract up to five critical minerals and was the first added to a progra…
Inside Climate News is a finalist for the Oakes Award for its “Planet China” series, which exposes the ecological damage from China’s Belt and Road Initiative.…
What if companies affected by government efforts to protect the environment could get international arbitrators to award them billion-dollar payouts? That’s ex…
Cloud seeding off South America’s coast could weaken El Niño by cooling ocean temperatures, a *Science Advances* study found, but risks like "termination shock…
The East Pacific Rise experienced a sudden, four-day burst of seafloor spreading in 2022, spreading nearly two inches—challenging the belief that such changes …
A 6th-century Syrian monastery, restored by an Italian priest who disappeared during the civil war, still thrives with monks and nuns fostering interfaith dial…
At least 13 people, including five children, died in Bangladesh landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains. Climate change and deforestation worsen landslides, y…
