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At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...

When, at the annual United Nations climate conference in Paris in 2015, the countries of the world agreed to the ...

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing ...

Three million years ago, the atmosphere’s carbon-dioxide levels weren’t so different from those of today, but sea levels were dozens of meters higher. Looking ...

A new legal theory suggests that oil companies could be taken to court for every kind of homicide in the ...

Wealthy investors and asset managers wield a lot of power over the major companies whose stock they own or control. Every year, ...

As more and more Americans embrace electric vehicles, automakers and the federal government are racing to secure the materials needed ...

For decades, environmental advocates have been pushing back against “greenwashing,” when polluting companies misleadingly present themselves as environmentally friendly. Governments ...

This article by Grist is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now (CCN). Last year, climate ...