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Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away.
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Louisiana town fights for relief after a billion-dollar oil disaster
Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
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February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away.
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Desflurane is more than 7,000 times more effective at warming the planet over a 20-year period than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis.
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Health Care Providers Are Dropping a Common Anesthesia Drug That’s Also a Climate Super Pollutant - Inside Climate News
Limiting use of desflurane helps hospitals reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; the European Union now prohibits its use during most procedures.
insideclimatenews.org
February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Desflurane is more than 7,000 times more effective at warming the planet over a 20-year period than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis.
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There is a library of studies trying to understand the connection between chronic pain and weather, but no single theory has prevailed in the medical establishment.
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The Real Pain of Climate Change Is Easy to Feel, but Increasingly Difficult to Study - Inside Climate News
Many chronic pain patients cite the weather as a driver of their suffering, and climate change is making the torment more likely and harder to deal with. But research on the relationship is uncertain, and federal cuts could hold it back.
insideclimatenews.org
February 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
There is a library of studies trying to understand the connection between chronic pain and weather, but no single theory has prevailed in the medical establishment.
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The Port Everglades expansion has been under development for more than a decade, with repeated delays due to concerns from federal scientists and conservation groups about the scale of environmental damage the dredging could cause.
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Ten Million Corals Are in the Path of a Federal Dredging Project in Florida - Inside Climate News
Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., including some of the only remaining endangered staghorn corals that survived a record-breaking heat wave.
insideclimatenews.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The Port Everglades expansion has been under development for more than a decade, with repeated delays due to concerns from federal scientists and conservation groups about the scale of environmental damage the dredging could cause.
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Clothing production accounts for 10 percent of total global carbon emissions, consumes and contaminates large amounts of water, and 85 percent of textiles made end up in landfills.
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A Network Blooms to Connect Fiber Farmers With Fabric Artisans - Inside Climate News
New Jersey Fibershed is an affiliate of a global movement that supports creating more sustainable clothing and fabrics from the wool of local sheep, alpacas and goats.
insideclimatenews.org
February 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Clothing production accounts for 10 percent of total global carbon emissions, consumes and contaminates large amounts of water, and 85 percent of textiles made end up in landfills.
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Toxic particle pollution, from sources like vehicle and industrial emissions, biomass combustion and crop burning, can cause illness, birth defects and early death, also harming child development, fertility, heart health and cognition.
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In Lahore’s Smog Season, This Gen Z Doctor Is Centering Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Dr. Farah Waseem has advocated for climate awareness since childhood. Now, it’s a matter of life and death for her patients in Pakistan.
insideclimatenews.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Toxic particle pollution, from sources like vehicle and industrial emissions, biomass combustion and crop burning, can cause illness, birth defects and early death, also harming child development, fertility, heart health and cognition.
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The Valley Fire lasted for three weeks and burned more than 10,000 acres, including about half of the bird research station’s grounds.
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An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire - Inside Climate News
The Valley Fire torched Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers there are channeling their grief into a study of how avians respond to climate-driven blazes.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The Valley Fire lasted for three weeks and burned more than 10,000 acres, including about half of the bird research station’s grounds.
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The Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, is nearing completion on what could be one of Europe’s largest electric vehicle battery factories.
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China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are a Boon for Climate, but Human Rights and the Environment Are a Different Story - Inside Climate News
Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas. The projects could help lower emissions, but they are having significant social, environmental and human rights impacts.
insideclimatenews.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, is nearing completion on what could be one of Europe’s largest electric vehicle battery factories.
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New York City is expected to experience increasing rainfall over the next few decades, especially during cloudbursts—short, intense rainfall events.
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Why New York City Is Spending Millions on ‘Bluebelts’ - Inside Climate News
New York City is expected to experience increasing rainfall over the next few decades, especially during cloudbursts—short, intense rainfall events. When rain falls, light showers can usually be handled by the complex network of sewer pipes that run beneath the city. But during heavy downpours, water can accumulate, posing a danger to the residents and …
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February 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
New York City is expected to experience increasing rainfall over the next few decades, especially during cloudbursts—short, intense rainfall events.
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The band’s first climate-focused album, “Room to Grow,” is a 10-song invitation to climate action, laying out what’s at stake and why the natural world is worth protecting.
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Maine Folk Band GoldenOak Finds Its Voice in a Warming World - Inside Climate News
The musicians of GoldenOak turns floods, forest loss and climate anxiety into folk songs rooted in Maine and shaped by activism.
insideclimatenews.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The band’s first climate-focused album, “Room to Grow,” is a 10-song invitation to climate action, laying out what’s at stake and why the natural world is worth protecting.
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The Florida Everglades is where a $27 billion restoration effort is among the most ambitious of its kind in human history.
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Now in its 25th Year, a Historic Effort to Save the Everglades Evolves as the Climate Warms - Inside Climate News
Everglades restoration was designed to replenish the drinking water supply in one of the fast-growing parts of the nation. The same effort may help save South Florida from climate change.
insideclimatenews.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The Florida Everglades is where a $27 billion restoration effort is among the most ambitious of its kind in human history.
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The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders—and what that means for the environment.
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How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders - Inside Climate News
Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.
insideclimatenews.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders—and what that means for the environment.
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The Delta’s history is America’s. At its heart are the island mounds of Bottle Creek, the “principal political and religious center” for the Indigenous Pensacola culture for 300 years before European contact.
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How Alabama Power Has Left the ‘American Amazon’ at Risk - Inside Climate News
As its polluting coal ash ponds remain in groundwater, Alabama Power has doubled down on fossil fuel energy investments.
insideclimatenews.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The Delta’s history is America’s. At its heart are the island mounds of Bottle Creek, the “principal political and religious center” for the Indigenous Pensacola culture for 300 years before European contact.
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PFAS are manmade chemicals that give the materials they coat heat-, water-, and stain-resistant properties. They have been used in consumer products since the 1950s, but since the chemicals’ risks for human health came to light in the early 2000s.
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Michigan’s Other Water Crisis: PFAS’s Prevalence in Private Wells - Inside Climate News
Seeking peace and quiet amid hectic careers, Sandy Wynn-Stelt and her husband Joel moved to Kent County, Michigan, in 1992. They picked out a home surrounded by woods and across from a Christmas tree farm, which Wynn-Stelt said was “about as Michigan as you can get.” She was working in the mental health field. He …
insideclimatenews.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
PFAS are manmade chemicals that give the materials they coat heat-, water-, and stain-resistant properties. They have been used in consumer products since the 1950s, but since the chemicals’ risks for human health came to light in the early 2000s.
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Chris Warner has been harvesting seafood in coastal Maine since he was a teenager. It’s never been easy, but he’s never let the obstacles stand in his way. Sometimes, he says, it feels like he’s spent 34 years in an endless state of adaptation.
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Maine’s Shellfish Harvesters Are Caught up in Climate-Related Closures - Inside Climate News
Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.
insideclimatenews.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Chris Warner has been harvesting seafood in coastal Maine since he was a teenager. It’s never been easy, but he’s never let the obstacles stand in his way. Sometimes, he says, it feels like he’s spent 34 years in an endless state of adaptation.
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Even from the base of the mountain, the crew could see that the peak’s trees were bare and blackened. It was clear the fire had reached the station.
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An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire - Inside Climate News
The Valley Fire torched Lucky Peak in the fall of 2024. Bird researchers there are channeling their grief into study of how avians respond to climate-driven blazes.
insideclimatenews.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Even from the base of the mountain, the crew could see that the peak’s trees were bare and blackened. It was clear the fire had reached the station.
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In September, hundreds of residents dove into the Chicago River for the first open swim in nearly a century.
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After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces - Inside Climate News
When the EPA abruptly terminated “Community Change” grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts.
insideclimatenews.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
In September, hundreds of residents dove into the Chicago River for the first open swim in nearly a century.
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Radioactive elements such as radium, uranium and thorium in rocks deep underground come to the surface as a byproduct of oil and gas drilling.
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Twenty Years Into Fracking, Pennsylvania Has Yet to Reckon With Its Radioactive Waste - Inside Climate News
Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far more radioactive than previously known.
insideclimatenews.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Radioactive elements such as radium, uranium and thorium in rocks deep underground come to the surface as a byproduct of oil and gas drilling.
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Decades of experience may well come in handy as New Jersey, the nation’s most densely populated state, is likely to experience more significant flooding in the years to come.
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A New Jersey Buyout Program for Flood-Prone Homes Is a National Model - Inside Climate News
In a state beset by sea level rise and flooding, the Blue Acres program has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties that were repeatedly inundated, turning the properties into buffer zones and open spaces.
insideclimatenews.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Decades of experience may well come in handy as New Jersey, the nation’s most densely populated state, is likely to experience more significant flooding in the years to come.
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Climate extremes overlapped and compounded, pushing humanitarian relief systems beyond their limits.
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Scenes From an Unfolding Climate Drama - Inside Climate News
ICN international climate policy reporter Bob Berwyn reviews the past decade of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
insideclimatenews.org
February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Climate extremes overlapped and compounded, pushing humanitarian relief systems beyond their limits.
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The public rate cases that had become so toxic under George Wallace had been eliminated, but those hearings served as the best method for the public to gain insight into how their power bills were calculated, and which utility decisions they were paying for.
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How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates - Inside Climate News
After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power.
insideclimatenews.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The public rate cases that had become so toxic under George Wallace had been eliminated, but those hearings served as the best method for the public to gain insight into how their power bills were calculated, and which utility decisions they were paying for.
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Debt swaps, for nature, development projects and more, are not new. Western creditors have been experimenting with versions of them since the 1980s.
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Countries Want Debt Relief for Conservation. Is China Ready to Play a Role? - Inside Climate News
“Debt-for-nature” swaps are helping some lower-income countries increase conservation. The world’s largest nation-state creditor has the leverage for deals—if it chooses to use it.
insideclimatenews.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Debt swaps, for nature, development projects and more, are not new. Western creditors have been experimenting with versions of them since the 1980s.
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For western Maine, weather extremes are apparent. The area is experiencing more days above 90 degrees in the summer, earlier spring thaws and less snowfall in the winter.
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Nonprofit Center Works with Rural Maine Towns to Prepare for and Protect Against Extreme Weather - Inside Climate News
Weather disasters are shared experiences in the Maine foothills and communities are preparing for a wetter, warmer future.
insideclimatenews.org
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
For western Maine, weather extremes are apparent. The area is experiencing more days above 90 degrees in the summer, earlier spring thaws and less snowfall in the winter.
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For Peru, the recent opening of the port here was the realization, nearly two decades in the making, of a dream to position itself as South America’s global transportation hub.
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A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge - Inside Climate News
The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.
insideclimatenews.org
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
For Peru, the recent opening of the port here was the realization, nearly two decades in the making, of a dream to position itself as South America’s global transportation hub.
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Across Georgia, nearly 15 percent of families are food insecure, meaning they have limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to Feeding America.
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Georgia's hunters take aim at rural hunger
With rural food programs stretched especially thin and climate change driving up prices, meat donations and local initiatives are trying to fill the gap.
grist.org
January 31, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Across Georgia, nearly 15 percent of families are food insecure, meaning they have limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to Feeding America.
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