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A Walk in the Woods with My Brain on Fire: Summer

Text and photos by David Sassoon

Tiehm’s buckwheat, a small wildflower with yellow pom-poms, is an endemic species unique to the Silver Peak Range. Credit: Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity

A Nevada Lithium Mine Nears Approval, Despite Threatening the Only Habitat of an Endangered Wildflower

By Wyatt Myskow

A cow stands next to a non-producing oil well in Caldwell County, Texas. Gas was venting out of the well even though oil is not being produced. Credit: Courtesy of Abigail Edgar

Study Finds High Levels of Hydrogen Sulfide in Central Texas Oilfield

By Martha Pskowski

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

A view of a fracking site in Marianna, Pennsylvania, on October 22, 2020. Credit: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

A Company’s Struggles Raise Questions About the Future of Lithium Extraction in Pennsylvania

By Kiley Bense

Global warming will drive more extremes at both ends of the hydrological cycle, droughts and floods, but a new study shows that existing climate models are particularly underestimating the length of future dry spells. Credit: Michael Dantas/AFP and Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images

New Study Suggests Major Climate Reports May Be Underestimating Drought Risks

By Bob Berwyn

For years, the Goodyear chemical plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been releasing large quantities of a carcinogen with the state's knowledge. Regulators say they're working on a solution, but some wonder why it's taking so long. Credit: Emyle Watkins/WBFO

A Dangerous Chemical Is Fouling Niagara Falls’ Air. New York State Hasn’t Put a Stop to It

By Jim Morris and Emyle Watkins

Fishermen try their luck from the Mobile Bay Causeway in south Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Environmental Group, Fishermen Seek to End ‘Federal Mud Dumping’ in Mobile Bay

By Dennis Pillion

Q&A: Near Lake Superior, a Tribe Fights to Remove a Pipeline From the Wetlands It Depends On

By Kiley Price

Cattle graze in an area near recent deforestation in the state of Acre, Brazil on July 14, 2022. Credit: Rafael Vilela/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Ranchers Are Using Toxic Herbicides to Clear Forests in Brazil

By Georgina Gustin

The sun sets behind the mountains at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, shrouded in smoke from regional wildfires on July 14, 2021. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

With Wyoming’s Regional Haze Plan ‘Partially Rejected,’ Conservationists Await Agency’s Final Proposal

By Jake Bolster

Olivia Vesovich, one of 16 youth plaintiffs in Held v. Montana, on her favorite hiking trail in Missoula, Montana in July 2023. Credit: Tailyr Irvine/The Washington Post via Getty Images.

How to Talk to Anxious Children About Climate Change

By Nina Dietz

A house is surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Debby on Aug. 6 in Charleston, South Carolina. Credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images

The Promise and Challenges of Managed Retreat

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

An aerial view of barges, stranded by low water at the Port of Rosedale along the Mississippi River on Oct. 20, 2022 in Rosedale, Mississippi. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Another Midwest Drought Is Causing Transportation Headaches on the Mississippi River

By Kristoffer Tigue

A view of the Wolf Hollow II power plant, owned by Constellation Energy, in Granbury, Texas. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

A Power Plant Expansion Tied to Bitcoin Mining Faces Backlash From Conservative Texans

By Keaton Peters

A commuter wears a “slightly satiric” gas mask in Los Angeles in 1966. By the 1940s, smog from vehicle exhaust had gotten so bad that the county formed the nation’s first air pollution control district. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

California Slashed Harmful Vehicle Emissions, but People of Color and Overburdened Communities Continue to Breathe the Worst Air

By Liza Gross

As drivers enter Purcellville, Virginia, they are reminded via road signs that farms in the area are under drought watch on Sept. 7, 2023. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Combination of Heat and Drought Walloped Virginia Vegetable Farmers

By Sean Sublette

People walk in the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, D.C. on May 6, 2019. Credit: Lindsay Ferraris/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollutants, Known as PM2.5, Have Led to Disproportionately High Deaths Among Black Americans

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

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