When the Grid Heats Up: America’s Cooling Crisis and Water Wars
Extreme heatwaves drive up electricity demand, strain water supplies, and worsen pollution. Discover how America’s cooling crisis is also a water war.
Environmental News & Updates
Invisible Plastics: How Microfibers in Our Clothes Pollute Water, Air, and Bodies
Synthetic clothing sheds microfibers into water, air, and food chains. Discover the hidden pollution in your laundry—and what you can do about it.
Drying Up Protections: How Narrowing the Clean Water Act Risks Pollution in America’s Streams and Wetlands
A new EPA proposal narrows Clean Water Act protections, leaving wetlands and streams vulnerable to pollution and exposing communities to greater risk.
Toxic Tide: How Rising Seas Threaten America’s Coastal Communities with Pollution
A new study warns thousands of hazardous sites along U.S. coasts could flood, risking chemical contamination and exposing regulatory gaps that endanger communities.
Broken Promises on Wheels: How California’s Clean Truck Fight Exposes America’s Pollution Loopholes
A federal court blocks California’s clean truck rules, leaving communities exposed to diesel pollution and legal smog. This ruling reveals the fragility of climate enforcement and the cost of regulatory loopholes.
Disinformation as Pollution: Clearing the Climate Narrative Smog
False narratives behave like pollution—obscuring visibility, corroding trust, and delaying climate action. COP30’s declaration marks the first official step toward clearing the climate narrative smog.
Breathing Danger: Why Knowing Your Local Air Quality Matters
Invisible pollutants like PM2.5, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide quietly damage our lungs, hearts, and brains. Learn how common air contaminants affect your health—and how PollutionNearMe.org helps you track what you're breathing.
Permafrost Thaw Unlocks Hidden Pollution
New research reveals that thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic is releasing toxic substances once locked in frozen ground. These pollutants are now reaching lakes and rivers, threatening ecosystems and freshwater supplies. Scientists warn that climate change is opening underground pathways for contamination, raising urgent questions about monitoring and accountability.
AI, Cooling, and the Climate Paradox
Artificial intelligence promises climate solutions — smarter grids, predictive models, optimized cooling. But the servers powering these breakthroughs demand enormous energy and water, often drawn from fossil-fuel grids. This editorial explores the paradox: can machines help us survive the heat without overheating the planet?
If Earth’s Symptoms Were Ours: A Climate Allegory
What if humans mirrored the Earth’s climate symptoms? This editorial allegory explores fever, melting ice, rising seas, and biodiversity loss — mapped onto the human body to dramatize the planetary crisis.
An Inconvenient Truth, 20 Years Later: What Gore Got Right, Wrong, and what is Still Unknown
We revisit Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth to see which climate predictions came true, which missed, and which remain uncertain.