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Montana’s American Prairie will have to remove its bison from seven parcels of BLM land it leased for grazing under the Biden administration, though it may appeal the “politically motivated” decision. insideclimatenews.org/news/15052026/…

China has long been a leader in clean energy. A new analysis shows the United States is actively retreating. insideclimatenews.org/news/14052026/…

Chemical recycling is one of the “major stumbling blocks” in efforts to reduce plastic waste in New York, a state lawmaker says. insideclimatenews.org/news/14052026/…

Officials at Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention facility in the Everglades, told vendors this week the site will shut down as soon as early June, according to news reports. insideclimatenews.org/news/13052026/…

Despite deforestation dropping in the Brazilian Amazon, the number of wildfires in the region has increased by over 30 percent this year. insideclimatenews.org/news/14052026/…

After dozens of sloths died at a now-shuttered Orlando attraction, Florida officials temporarily halted sloth imports through the Port of Miami, where more than 98% of sloths enter the U.S. insideclimatenews.org/news/13052026/…

To meet the challenge presented by climate change, former vice president Al Gore said it will take more than cheap talk. It will take action. insideclimatenews.org/news/13052026/…

Snow and rain in the American West is concentrating at one of the highest rates in the world. Researchers found surges of precipitation followed by dry conditions will have implications for ecosystems, water management and this year’s El Niño.  insideclimatenews.org/news/13052026/…

Seattle soared to prosperity with the help of cheap power from city-owned dams in the North Cascades. Now, after more than a century, it has agreed to pay three Indigenous tribes about $1.35 billion for some of the wealth it extracted from the Skagit River. insideclimatenews.org/news/13052026/…

Plant Vogtle’s nuclear expansion in Georgia went way over budget and took years longer than expected. What can other states learn from that amid a new nuclear-power boom? insideclimatenews.org/news/10052026/…

The Well Done Foundation is remediating some of the millions of abandoned and orphaned fossil fuel wells that pollute water, soil and the atmosphere, but plugging a borehole can be even harder than drilling it. insideclimatenews.org/news/10052026/…

A portable water treatment system, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico, could bring clean drinking water to communities that have gone without it for far too long. insideclimatenews.org/news/12052026/…

The authors of a new paper emphasize that climate is not the primary driver of war. Political instability, inequality and weak governance matter more. But recurring climate shocks like El Niño can shift when and where existing vulnerabilities turn into violence. insideclimatenews.org/news/11052026/…

You might know Maine for its lobster rolls, but its wild blueberries are just as iconic. Now, heat and drought have set the plant back to a point where small farmers are struggling against reduced yield and increased costs for mulch and irrigation. insideclimatenews.org/news/11052026/…

Ann Carlson’s new book is a dramatic account not only of how LA achieved cleaner skies, but also the precarity of the present air quality and its prospects in the future. insideclimatenews.org/news/09052026/…

Federal and state failures to protect salmon habitats are rendering Indigenous treaty rights in western Washington meaningless. insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/…

A lack of transparency means state agencies don’t have a full picture of data centers’ economic impacts in N.C. insideclimatenews.org/news/10042026/…

This year the U.S. experienced more than 15,000 fire starts by March 27 and wildland blazes consumed more than 1.5 million acres in that time. Both figures are steep increases over the 10-year average through March 27 of 9,195 starts and 664,792 acres burned. insideclimatenews.org/news/27032026/…

Since the 1980s, Norway has killed over 16,000 whales—more than any other country, including Japan and Iceland, the only other countries that allow whales to be killed for profit. insideclimatenews.org/news/14042026/…