Stories by E&E News

Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops

A law proposed in New York State seeks to reduce plastic packaging, ban certain plastic chemicals and mandate that producers of packaged consumer goods fund the recycling or disposal of what they sell

Floods, wildfires, droughts and earthquakes forced more than 26 million people to leave their homes in 2023

An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a year

New CDC guidance encourages clinicians to start conversations with patients about dangerous heat

Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions

A competition to develop carbon-removal technology that is run by XPRIZE and backed by money from Elon Musk has announced 20 finalists. A winner will be announced next year

Using forests to prop up carbon markets can lead to “perverse effects” on land management, such as cutting out local communities

Homes that survive wildfire flames but that are still affected by smoke, soot and ash is a growing issue for homeowners and insurers, as is the question of how to best remediate the problem

The autonomous trucking industry says its self-driving vehicles can cut carbon emissions by reducing fuel use, though some groups have raised safety questions

Hydrogen could help make flying greener, but switching away from fossil fuels poses some hefty challenges

The G7 group of wealthy, developed economies has agreed to phase out coal-fired power, the most polluting form of energy, by 2035

“Energy independence” doesn’t mean what politicians think it means

A new U.N. program highlights the disconnect between climate messaging and the growing possibility of overshooting a key global warming threshold

Inexpensive Chinese solar panels are pitting Americans who want cheap equipment against those who want to make it

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules

The U.S. is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to replenish storm-ravaged beaches in a losing battle against rising seas and erosion

A new video game puts climate solution tools in the hands of up to 80 million Minecraft players

Scientists say extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and killed at least 100 people in parts of West Africa would only occur every 200 years in the absence of climate change

At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South America, and this year 1,800 people have died from the mosquito-borne disease

Compound events in which coastal flooding and heat waves occur at the same time are happening more often as the planet warms

The U.S. needs to vastly increase taxpayer spending on direct carbon removal technology to meet President Biden’s climate goals, the Rhodium Group says

The European Court of Human Rights found that climate change is a human rights issue, providing a blueprint for Europeans to force their governments to tackle rising temperatures

Books are becoming a key part of disaster recovery, helping toddlers—and their parents—cope with increasing hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires