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EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

Exclusive data analysis from Inside Climate News: EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists? - Inside Climate News A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?
A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents. insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe - Inside Climate News CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petr...

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe. Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months and fully run out of water next year. insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...

The Selling Of Melania (Update) Some might consider it ridiculous that Jeff Bezos thought it wise to pay $40 million to produce a movie no one outside the White House wanted. But then, was it really about making a documentary abo…

CNN Films produced “RBG” for around $1 million. The promotional budget, that helped it land two Oscar nominations, totaled about $3 million. The film expanded into 432 locations, enough to rank as the year’s No. 1 political documentary. blog.simplejustice.us/2026/01/29/t...

Christine Spolar Joins ICN as Associate Publisher - Inside Climate News Award-winning journalist, producer and editor Christine Spolar has joined Inside Climate News as associate publisher, a newly created position, after working for over a year as an editor in the newsro...

I'm thrilled to be working with Christine Spolar again! This is a big deal for us at Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/2201202...

New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’ - Inside Climate News Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world.

Blowing past 1.5 degrees Celsius: The past three years averaged more than 1.5 degrees, the first time any three-year stretch has crossed that threshold. insideclimatenews.org/news/1301202...

How Trump Derailed a NOAA Pioneer’s Move From Climate Impacts to Solutions - Inside Climate News Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not...

A heartbreaking story of loss, and the destructive cuts of DOGE, at NOAA, by Inside Climate News' Marianne Lavelle, who, like Libby Jewitt, is a national treasure. insideclimatenews.org/news/0601202...

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates - Inside Climate News After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power.

Alabama’s civil rights history is inescapable, even in places most people wouldn’t expect. Their electric bills, for example. insideclimatenews.org/news/2612202...

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates - Inside Climate News After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power.

How George Wallace and Bull Connor Set the Stage for Alabama’s Sky-High Electric Rates: After his notorious stand in the schoolhouse door, Wallace needed a new target. He found it in Alabama Power. insideclimatenews.org/news/2612202...

Hundreds of Sea Turtles Are Freezing in Cape Cod - Inside Climate News After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned as temperatures drop. A major rescue and rehabilitation response is underway to save the...

Hundreds of Sea Turtles Are Freezing in Cape Cod insideclimatenews.org/news/1312202...

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million - Inside Climate News Indigenous and other Ecuadorians have lived with millions of gallons of toxic pollution from Texaco’s operations for decades. Now, those victims’ tax dollars will go to Chevron, which acquired Texaco ...

Latest Twist in Chevron’s Amazon Pollution Saga: Ecuador Ordered to Pay the Oil Company $220 Million insideclimatenews.org/news/1012202...

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge - Inside Climate News The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

Must reading from @georginagustin.bsky.social at Inside Climate News: A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge insideclimatenews.org/news/0112202...

A Rare Recusal by Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Up for Re-election - Inside Climate News Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright removed himself from a vote last week on an oilfield waste company with which he has financial ties. The move highlighted the close relationship between state official...

A Rare Recusal by Texas Oil and Gas Regulator Up for Re-election. The move highlighted the close relationship between state officials and the industry they regulate. insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...

How China Silences Environmental Reporters Beyond Its Borders - Inside Climate News Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.

Please read this important story from Inside Climate News about China's intimidation of environmental journalists in Africa and beyond. A powerful expose by Katie Surma insideclimatenews.org/news/2311202...

As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System - Inside Climate News Environmental advocates warn oil leaks or spills could cause irreparable damage to the unique and understudied ecosystem. They are suing the Brazilian government and its largest state-owned oil produc...

As COP30 Unfolds in the Amazon, Brazil Is Drilling for Oil Near the Great Amazon Reef System. Teresa Tomassoni reports insideclimatenews.org/news/1911202...

N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency So Poorly Managed That State Auditor Couldn’t Determine Full Extent of Waste - Inside Climate News The story of the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency’s disaster response efforts was itself ”a disaster.”  That’s what State Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, concluded in a scathing 506...

N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency So Poorly Managed That State Auditor Couldn’t Determine Full Extent of Waste. The latest from Lisa Sorg insideclimatenews.org?p=102723

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up - Inside Climate News The New Jersey Climate Superfund Act would make oil companies pay for their past greenhouse gas emissions, possibly generating up to $50 billion for state climate relief. “This should be the easiest v...

Bill McKibben on the State-Led Efforts to Make Big Oil Pay Up:
The New Jersey Climate Superfund Act would make oil companies pay for their past greenhouse gas emissions. insideclimatenews.org/news/1911202...

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects - Inside Climate News Two-thirds of Texas’ future solar and storage developments are at risk of delay or cancellation due to regulatory uncertainty, a report warns.

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects.
Two-thirds of Texas’ future solar and storage developments are at risk of delay or cancellation due to regulatory uncertainty, a report warns. insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...

A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30 - Inside Climate News The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say.

A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30.
The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say. insideclimatenews.org/news/1811202...

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums - Inside Climate News Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country.

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums. Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country. insideclimatenews.org/news/1611202...

Deadly in Small Doses: New Research Shows the Lethal Effects of Ingested Plastic on Marine Animals - Inside Climate News Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals, according to a new analysis.

Deadly in Small Doses: New Research Shows the Lethal Effects of Ingested Plastic on Marine Animals. Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals. insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Federal Protections for Waterways and Wetlands - Inside Climate News Environmental groups warn the proposal to change the definition of “waters of the United States” would eliminate crucial safeguards for “countless” bodies of water.

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Federal Protections for Waterways and Wetlands. Environmental groups warn the proposal to change the definition of “waters of the United States” would eliminate crucial safeguards for “countless” bodies of water. insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.

Ecuadorians overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Rights of Nature. Environmentalists and Indigenous organizations opposed to President Noboa’s crackdown on environmental defenders and his economic policies celebrated Sunday’s results. insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Deadly in Small Doses: New Research Shows the Lethal Effects of Ingested Plastic on Marine Animals - Inside Climate News Fragments of rubber balloons, plastic bags and fishing line can cause fatal blockages and injuries in sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals, according to a new analysis.

What a heartbreaking photo by Teresa Tomassoni. insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ ...

This is one of the most fascinating articles I've ever read. A sample, about whales: “They have grandmothers, family bonds and conversations. They mourn their dead. When you listen long enough, you realize their inner worlds might be as complex as ours.” insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...

Got it, thanks. We want to brag about you, as well. Let me know when you get word on your oceans proposal.

Congrats, Daniel! Which of the pieces you wrote for us were part of the entry?

A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten | PNAS Although seminal studies from the early 1960s suggested quality preschool can have lasting positive effects, agreement is lacking on the efficacy o...

A national randomized controlled trial of the impact of public Montessori preschool at the end of kindergarten | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Scientists Warn About the ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica - Inside Climate News Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

Scientists are sounding the alarm, warning that the rapid “Greenlandification” of Antarctica will have serious consequences, including an accelerated rise in sea levels and significant shifts in rainfall and drought patterns. insideclimatenews.org/news/1610202...

Shuttered Canadian Marine Park Warns It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales, Prompting a Global Outcry - Inside Climate News The uncertain future of 30 beluga whales still living in tanks at Marineland—a shuttered aquarium and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario—has drawn global outcry from animal rights activists this...

Shuttered Canadian Marine Park Warns It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales, Prompting a Global Outcry insideclimatenews.org/news/0910202...