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Polar Bears Are Suffering from the Arctic's Loss of Sea Ice. So Is Scientists' Ability to Study Them

With a warming climate, coastal fog around the world is declining

Ongoing threat: Thawing permafrost has damaged Trans-Alaska pipeline

Thawing Permafrost has Damaged the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and Poses an Ongoing Threat

Maryland's Capital City Joins a Long Line of Litigants Seeking Climate-Related Damages from the Fossil Fuel Industry

The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change. Is it Ready to Decide Which Courts Have Jurisdiction?

The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change. Is it Ready to Decide Which Courts Have Jurisdiction? Cities, counties and states suing the fossil fuel industry want state courts to award damages. But industry says it’s a federal, if not a global, concern. January 20, 2021 U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends the funeral of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the U.S Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford - Pool/Getty Images Related Share this article Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wasted no time cutting to the chase during a hearing Tuesday in a climate change case in which the City of Baltimore is seeking potentially billions in damages from the fossil fuel industry related to climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise.

Could Baltimore's Climate Change Suit Become a Supreme Court Test Case?

EarthBeat Weekly: Environmental justice, action, spirituality among top themes for 2021

A man participates in an interfaith vigil before the 2014 U.N. climate summit in Lima, Peru. (Barbara Fraser) Editor's Note: EarthBeat Weekly is your weekly newsletter about faith and climate change. Below is the Jan. 1 edition. To receive EarthBeat Weekly in your inbox, sign up here. Happy 2021! As we begin a new year, this seems like a good time to look back at where we've been and where we're going. I joined EarthBeat five months ago, and it feels like home now — although I'm kind of glad that my physical home is in Lima, Peru, in the Southern Hemisphere, where we're now having summer instead of winter.

The coal industry comes tumbling down in the American West

Advertisement The demolition capped off another tumultuous year for coal power. The industry helped build the modern West, but it’s collapsing as utility companies turn to natural gas, solar panels and wind turbines for lower-cost electricity, and as voters demand cleaner energy to reduce air pollution and confront the climate crisis. New Mexico’s Escalante Generating Station produced its final coal-fired electrons in August, and Portland General Electric shut down Oregon’s last coal plant in October. Those facilities will be joined in retirement in the next few days by one of two units at Washington’s Centralia coal plant and one of four units at Arizona’s Cholla coal plant. PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway empire, expects its Cholla unit to come offline around noon today, Christmas Eve.

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites Blazes at the imperiled hazardous waste sites could release toxins ranging from acid mine drainage to radioactive smoke. December 23, 2020 Firefighters use a back burn to try and control the Carr fire as it spreads towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding, California on July 31, 2018. The fire swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site, threatening to release corrosive chemicals into the watershed and contaminate Redding's water supply. Two firefighters were killed fighting the blaze and a 70 year old woman and her two great-grandchildren perished when their Redding home was swallowed by the flames. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images