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[l] at 4/17/26 7:10am
Three decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing pervasive lead contamination that continues to endanger their children, families in Kabwe, with a coalition of human rights groups, are calling on the African Union to force Zambia to clean up the site.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/16/26 2:45am
Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the impacts on wildlife, fish, and the drinking water of Indigenous communities.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/15/26 4:18am
Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials say that one-fifth of the country's farmland has been damaged in the course of the war.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/14/26 6:37am
In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy. However, rising power demand is complicating the transition away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/13/26 6:59am
As oceans warm and whale prey become increasingly scarce, gray whales have begun venturing into San Francisco Bay in search of food. But nearly one in five gray whales who enter the bay die there, many of them killed by passing boats, new research shows.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/10/26 7:35am
Scientists have long known that deadly diseases, from HIV to SARS to Ebola, can begin in animals and spill over to people. But a new study is the first to quantify the risks from the global trade in wildlife, finding that nearly half of traded mammals share at least one pathogen with humans.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/9/26 3:19am
Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas, revealing that tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are at risk of inundation. Across much of the world, sea levels are higher than previously assumed and land is sinking faster.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/8/26 7:35am
A broad shift to electric vehicles would benefit drivers of gas-powered cars by lowering the price of fuel. That is the finding of a new study, which comes as the war in Iran rattles energy markets, making oil more expensive.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/7/26 7:27am
A planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city of San Francisco.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/3/26 1:00am
The U.S. doesn’t produce enough vegetable oil to meet a new biofuels mandate, so suppliers will have to ramp up imports, putting pressure on tropical forests overseas, which may be cleared to grow oil crops.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/2/26 9:56am
In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosystems and what flowering plants can teach us about survival on a warming planet.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/2/26 2:36am
For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to witness the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of hard-won environmental progress. But as the assaults on clean air and water, endangered species, and more mount, a noted ecologist finds reasons for hope.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 4/1/26 7:44am
Scientists have identified more than 110 new species discovered deep underwater beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/31/26 7:58am
Indonesia saw the loss of forest hit its highest level in eight years last year, a jump driven in part by a sprawling effort to turn rainforest into rice and sugarcane plantations.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/30/26 1:00pm
New research finds that planting even a few trees on farms can give a big boost to forest wildlife.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/27/26 2:05am
A drought in Russia led to riots in Egypt. Fires in Canada fueled deadly pollution in Spain. Extreme weather can have knock-on effects in faraway places that are not well understood and rarely accounted for in planning, a new paper warns.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/26/26 5:16am
Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/25/26 4:09am
Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/24/26 4:53am
Over the last half century, populations of migratory freshwater fish have dropped by 81 percent, according to a stark new U.N. report. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/23/26 4:37am
Gray wolves made an uneasy comeback in the Northern Rockies and are struggling to return to the Southwest. But legislation now working its way through Congress is being spurred by misinformation and myth, rather than science, and threatens to end wolf recovery in the U.S.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/20/26 5:09am
In the forests of central Mexico, the number of monarch butterflies grew for the second year in a row, suggesting the population has stabilized after years of decline. Read more on E360 →

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