Policy

Dereliction of Beauty: First in a series on how lax regulation of beauty care products victimizes women of color. For Jeanette Toomer, the hours she used to spend to...

The European Union will ban environmental destruction tantamount to “ecocide,” outlawing acts that destroy or cause substantial damage to ecosystems.  The rule, agreed to last week, is part of...

Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out. Best estimates to date...

If there is one overarching message from the nation’s latest climate assessment, it is that nowhere will be spared.  Hotter temperatures are coming to every corner of the country,...

New climate talks between the United States and China could set an encouraging signal for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate summit, but only if the world’s biggest greenhouse...

On a Sunday afternoon in March 2023, Darlington Vito was shot in the head outside an industrial lithium mine in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.  A subsistence miner, he had been...

WASHINGTON—In a sprawling, multimedia report that stresses it is not too late to act, the Biden administration on Tuesday delivered a sobering catalog of climate change’s impacts in every...

The Society of Environmental Journalists announced last week that Anne Marshall-Chalmers, a freelancer for Inside Climate News and former ICN reporting fellow, won first place for feature writing  in...

Delegates from more than 175 countries are gathered in Nairobi to advance a potential diplomatic solution to a global plastic pollution crisis amid a growing awareness of the effect...

This story was originally published by The 19th. On an otherwise normal Friday night this past February, Misti Allison received a text from her sister-in-law that a train had...