Weekend Reader:  Award Winners, Southern Delusions & Top News.

SEJ recognizes the year's best in environmental journalism; a few observations from our Weekend Editor on the Solid (and Trumpian) South; and more

The Society of Environmental Journalists annual awards shows the strength and depth of environmental journalism; talk of a Democratic overthrow in the midterm elections is hard to find in the American South.


Payback? A major past donor to Jeff Sessions's campaigns gets some alleged payback in a dispute with EPA.

From theory to in-your-face: Climate scientist Michael Mann says climate impacts are no longer subtle, they're in our faces. From WBUR's Here & Now.

Twp from Alaska on Oil damage: From Inside Climate News: Surrounded by oil fields,an Alaskan village fears for its health.

And from the NYT's Henry Fountain: How new oil projects cut scars across Alaskan wilderness.

Shocker! Green energy passes its first trillion-watt milestone as prices drop. (Bloomberg)

Stellar long-read from The Guardian and Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism: What drives people to reject the truth.

From Wash Post's Capital Weather Gang: California's Carr Fire became one one the biggest fire tornadoes ever measured.

Essay from NPR's Scott Simon: Calling the press the "enemy of the people" is a menacing move.

Climate denial isn't the only anti-science push that won't die: In this NYT op-ed, Meliinda Winner Moyer says anti-vaxxers still have an impact on vaccine science.

Grist offers a level-headed assessment of the NYT Sunday Magazine's controversial "autopsy" on how the climate movement blew it in thie 1980's.






An overhead view of a small child playing in the sand on a beach

A deadly bacteria is creeping up the East Coast. How worried should you be?

Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio; scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.

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Indigenous health can't be separated from environmental health, leaders tell UN

Indigenous leaders at a UN forum linked climate change, mining, and deforestation to health crises, urging coordinated land rights action.

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Opinion: Farming with hope in the age of climate change

In California’s Central Valley, Nikiko Masumoto reckons with the future of growing in an increasingly hot world.
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The best climate change charities for 2025 and 2026

The climate emergency threatens all of humanity, and although the world has started to make some progress on it, our global response is still extremely lacking.

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Credit: A. C./Unsplash+

In climate change fight, doomerism is out. Laughter is in

Across the world, groups of activists, teachers and psychologists are tackling one of the world’s most daunting problems with laughter, dancing, hugs and most especially joy.

A man and woman in a grocery store looking at produce

The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it's all about 'affordability'

A new "working-class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.

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AI trained on 13,000 virtual worlds predicts renewable energy future

A new, AI-powered model beats the International Energy Agency's forecasts — and it says 2°C is still on the table.

From our Newsroom
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

One facility has emitted cancer-causing chemicals into waterways at levels up to 520% higher than legal limits.

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”

Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro speaks with the state flag and American flag behind him.

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”

wildfire retardants being sprayed by plane

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

“The chemical black box” that blankets wildfire-impacted areas is increasingly under scrutiny.

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