Wednesday, September 23, 2026
High Andean grassland terrain in Peru, similar to the Huancavelica region. Photo: Nina Reicer / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In Peru’s high Andes, restoring ancient ecosystems could help protect water security

Hydrologists remain divided over whether the approach can be replicated at the scale Peru's water crisis demands.
Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A Gulfstream G650 private jet. Photo: Aeroprints.com / CC BY-SA 3.0

Private jets use 7 percent of airspace but pay under 0.6 percent of aviation...

The Institute for Policy Studies also counts more than $1.13 billion in airport grants that may mainly benefit private jets, as a provision in the ALERT Act draws opposition over state tax enforcement.
A beef cattle herd grazing on pasture. Photo: inkknife_2000, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Organic Beef Has a Larger Carbon Footprint Than Feedlot Beef

But no matter the way it’s raised, beef comes with a steep climate cost.
Flooded street in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo: Wonderlane from Seattle, USA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Flood-damaged Nepal wants help from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund – but...

Getting Loss and Damage Fund money would be worth a lot more than the $20 million Nepal is asking for. The foreign minister calls it a demand for justice and ‘legal and moral liability.
Flooded houses in Chertsey, England. Photo: Alan Hunt / CC BY-SA 2.0

Insurance firms help flooding victims mop up. They also make flooding worse

Major insurers are fuelling the climate crisis while benefiting from a scheme that helps cover their flood losses
A veterinarian and a farrier at a farm in Hardwood, Maryland, April 30, 2025. Photo: USDA (public domain)

Too Few Vets, Too Many Animals: Inside the Farm Veterinarian Shortage

Fewer than 15% of veterinary school graduates are opting to care for farm animals.
A coal-fired power plant on Lake Erie in Tonawanda, New York. Photo: Ken Lund / CC BY-SA 2.0

EPA repeals climate pollution limits on power plants, drawing lawsuits and asthma warnings

The rule change could also block future administrations from ever regulating power plant emissions again, and one Arizona county already failing on air quality could be among the first to feel it.