Monday, September 28, 2026
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 petroleum pipeline right-of-way. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Energy Transfer seeks to overturn Pennsylvania clean water law after jet fuel spill

The 89-year-old law's mens rea challenge could also unravel other state statutes, from traffic offenses to hunting rules, if the company's argument succeeds.

Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major new report says

If emission reductions are large and sustained, we can still meet the Paris goals and avoid the most severe damage to the natural world, the economy and people. But worryingly, we also have time to make it far worse.
Land-surface temperatures around Phoenix during a record heat event. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech (public domain)

US heat deaths run five times higher than official counts, NPR investigation finds

The undercount traces back to how death certificates get written, researchers found, after NOAA confirmed 2026 brought the hottest summer on record.

Nearly all Chinook Salmon in ​Sacramento River expected to be killed by extreme heat,...

"It's an extreme set of cascading climate events pushing us into this crisis situation."

California’s salmon fishery reopens after three-year shutdown, but the recovery is fragile

Federal managers cleared a limited, tightly controlled 2026 season and Washington sent $21.3 million in disaster aid, yet drought, hatchery dependence and a warming Pacific still threaten a fish central to coastal economies and tribal life.
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.

Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain fragile

Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.

Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicides

Tell Home Deport and Lowe's to remove Roundup from store shelves and help protect both human and pollinators' health.

Encourage Congress to ban factory farms

It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!