How an organizer tries to be sustainable: Scheduling, biking and hope
Climate Diaries is a series that sheds light on what an average week — the good, bad, easy and hard — is like for people who are trying to live a more climate-conscious lifestyle. Climate Diaries aims to show a transparent and honest reflection of what people face while on this journey.
Become a climate-conscious cook in eight weeks with Ecokitchen
Let Priyanka Naik help you build a greener kitchen and teach you sustainable cooking habits. Sign up for our eight-week newsletter guide, Ecokitchen.
How climate change is reshaping the world
A look at some of the ways climate change is impacting the people, animals and agriculture around the world.
She’s fighting for a right to euthanasia. But she doesn’t want to die.
Knowing it would be available, Ana Estrada says, would free her to live.
Groups push Congress to pass climate package before Memorial Day
A coalition of more than 20 climate, labor and social justice groups is planning a nationwide mobilization to push Congress to pass robust climate legislation before Memorial Day, according to details shared exclusively with The Climate 202.
War in Ukraine poses environmental risk now and in the future, advocates say
Nearly one-third of Ukraine's protected waters and lands have suffered environmental damage during Russia's invasion.
Utility companies are pushing back on climate policy, report says
A new analysis released today by the climate think tank InfluenceMap shows that almost half of the 25 largest investor-owned utilities in the United States are actively pushing back against climate policy aligned with the Paris agreement.
A megafire raged for 3 months. No one’s on the hook for its emissions.
Megafires, melting permafrost and the massive emissions for which no nation is responsible.
Biden’s urgent moves on gas prices collide with lofty climate goals
Biden took office determined to shift the nation's course on climate change. Now that legacy could be threatened by the political urgency to cut gas prices.
Biden administration launches $6 billion nuclear plant bailout
Many plants struggled as prices of other forms of energy fell.
Tracking Biden’s environmental actions
President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.
Biden restores climate safeguards in key environmental law, reversing Trump
A final rule announced Tuesday by the White House will require agencies to assess the climate impact of roads, pipelines and other infrastructure.
Interior Department to resume oil and gas leasing, charge higher fees
As pressure increases on the Biden administration to lower the price of fuel, the Interior Department announced on Friday plans to hold its first onshore oil and gas lease sales since President Biden took office.
War in Ukraine generates interest in nuclear energy, despite danger
European nations are weighing climate benefits against the perils of putting nuclear power plants in harm’s way.
Gina McCarthy, Biden’s top climate adviser, plans to depart White House
Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate adviser, is preparing to leave her post, with Ali Zaidi likely to be her successor, according to two people familiar with plans.
The danger of forever chemicals
Today on “Post Reports,” how forever chemicals upended the lives of farmers in Maine — and just how widespread the contamination might be.
How a student tries to be sustainable: Biking, activism and food
Climate Diaries is a series that sheds light on what an average week — the good, bad, easy and hard — is like for people who are trying to live a more climate-conscious lifestyle. Climate Diaries aims to show a transparent and honest reflection of what people face while on this journey.
How Biden is trying to lower fuel prices — with corn
The Biden administration's plan to allow the sale of more corn-based ethanol may mildly ease pain at the pump. But the move may also increase pollution.
Climate change fueled historic 2020 hurricane season’s rainfall, study shows
Researchers found hourly hurricane rainfall totals in 2020 were up 11 percent, compared with those in the preindustrial era.
Climate pledges are improving — but still leave world on a disastrous path
‘The real work has to start,’ says the co-author of a new study that analyzes the promises nations have made to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks
From Miami to Minnesota, septic systems are failing, posing threats to clean water, ecosystems and public health.
‘Forever chemicals’ upended a Maine farm — and point to larger problem
It would be comforting to dismiss the story of Maine's Songbird Farm as a one-off calamity — a confined case of PFAS contamination. The reality is far more disturbing.