Environment

A Yanomami woman carries a toddler on the property of the Saude Indigenous House, a center responsible for supporting and assisting Indigenous people in Boa Vista, Brazil, on Jan. 25, 2023.

Edmar Barros / AP

Latino

Why are Brazil's Indigenous Yanomani being decimated by diseases, mining?

Scientists around the Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Climate in Crisis

Scientists set Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before

Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson walks along the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City

Rick Bowmer / Pool/AP file

Climate in Crisis

The Great Salt Lake is at risk of ecological collapse. Lawmakers are scrambling to buy more time.

Firefighter Christian Mendoza manages a backfire, flames lit by firefighters to burn off vegetation, while battling the Mosquito Fire in Placer County, Calif., on Sept. 13, 2022.

Noah Berger / AP file

Western Wildfires

U.S. earmarks $490 million for wildfire prevention

The sun behind dark clouds.

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Climate in Crisis

Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering, forcing startup to pause operations

Wildlife workers relocate Tristram’s storm petrels on Hawaii’s Tern Island

L. Young / Pacific Rim Conservation via AP

Climate in Crisis

Moving species emerges as last resort as climate warms

Police officers carry Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg away from a mine during a protest by climate activists in Luetzerath, Germany, on Jan. 17, 2023.

Federico Gambarini / dpa via AP

World

Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained at coal mine protest

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech at the World Economic Forum

Markus Schreiber / AP

Climate in Crisis

E.U. outlines plan for clean tech future boosted by subsidies

-Europe's largest known deposit of rare earth elements -- key for the production of electric cars -- has been discovered in Sweden's far north, Swedish mining company LKAB said.

Jonas Ekstromer / AFP - Getty Images

World

Sweden locates rare earth deposits as Europe races against China

Heatwave

Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Climate in Crisis

NASA and NOAA find 2022 was one of the hottest years on record

An Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Baton Rouge

Barry Lewis / In Pictures via Getty Images file

Climate in Crisis

Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s, study finds

A kayaker fishes in Lake Oroville as water levels remain low due to continuing drought conditions in Oroville, Calif., on Aug. 22, 2021.

Ethan Swope / AP file

Climate in Crisis

Surging rivers highlight a big dam problem for California

Gloria Johnson stands in her kitchen in southwest Baltimore.

Michelle Cho / NBC News

U.S. news

'I'm scared to give it to my kids': Baltimore's water issues are symptoms of a growing national problem

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Ethan Swope / AP file

Climate in Crisis

Extreme weather caused $165 billion in damage last year, NOAA says

An Amazon office and flooding in Pakistan.

Stephanie Foden / Bloomberg via Getty Images; Shahzaib Akber / EPA

EXCLUSIVE

Amazon workers press company on climate change response following floods in Pakistan

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Plant stands in Wilmington, Calif., on Nov. 28, 2022.

Mario Tama / Getty Images file

Climate in Crisis

U.S. greenhouse emissions show signs of slowing — but not quickly enough

This map shows the size and shape of the ozone hole over the South Pole on Oct. 5, 2022, when it reached its single-day maximum extent for the year.

Joshua Stevens / NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens

Environment

UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066

The German government, led by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, announced in early 2022 a compromise with energy giant RWE to allow the extension of the nearby mine.

Ina Fassbender / AFP - Getty Images

Climate in Crisis

Climate activists dig in to defend German village from coal mine

Climate in Crisis

U.N. gathering seeks billions in aid for Pakistan after devastating floods

Climate in Crisis

Last year was U.K.'s hottest ever as Europe’s climate warms

A view from the northwestern edge of the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Boulder City, Nev., on Nov. 17, 2020.

Kyle Grillot for The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Culture Matters

These parks and monuments with historical ties need protection, report says

Fir die-off as observed during this year’s aerial survey in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southern Oregon.

Environment

'Firmageddon': Researchers find 1.1 million acres of dead trees in Oregon

A dairy farm in the village of Oldetrijne in Friesland, a northern province of the Netherlands.

Alexey Yurenev for NBC News

World

How Dutch farmers became the center of a global right-wing culture war

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U.S. news

Crews in Kansas contain the largest-yet breach of the Keystone Pipeline

Photo illustration of a person pumping gas, traffic on a highway, a smokestack with dark fumes billowing from it, falling $100 dollar bills, and various snippets of documents detailing profits made by fossil fuel companies.

Chelsea Stahl / NBC News; Getty Images

Climate in Crisis

Oil companies 'could doom global efforts' around climate change, House committee finds