A new paper suggests that 15 percent of global warming comes from overlooked pollutants.

By Nina Sablan

Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits.

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

The decision voided the EPA guidance to terminate the $2.8 billion grant program. But it stopped short of requiring the agency to resume administering it.

By Lauren Dalban

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health challenges in underserved communities across the country.

Trump’s EPA Unlawfully Cancelled Environmental Justice Grants, Judge Rules

The surge in satellites brings pollution and risks of repeating destructive colonial practices, experts warn.

By Bob Berwyn

The starry night sky has always anchored humanity’s sense of place in a vast universe. It’s a map guiding travelers, a calendar for migrations and harvests, a wellspring of stories. But a surge of commercial satellite launches into the upper fringes of Earth’s atmosphere threatens the relationship between people and the celestial commons by crowding the night sky and polluting the atmosphere, scientists warn.

A Commercial Space Race Prompts a Thorny Question: Who Owns the Sky?