8/14/25 | The New York Times

Passengers are facing blocked wheelchair space, getting stuck in doors and suffering other indignities 35 years after the Americans With Disabilities Act became law.

9/18/24 | National Geographic

Natural disasters are increasingly happening in quick succession, raising new threats.

5/3/25 | Inside Climate News

U.S. disaster declarations totaled 108 last year, touching 137 million people. Now survivors are using their stories to call for change.

8/29/25 | The New York Times

The NextGen high-speed trains feel more like those in China, Japan or France. But topping out at 160 m.p.h., they’re still relatively slow.

6/15/25 | The New York Times

In Italy, Portugal and Spain, activists used water pistols and a “noisy stroll” of suitcases to draw attention to rising housing costs and the environmental toll of tourism.

3/11/25 | Smithsonian Magazine

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain.

8/9/24 | Bloomberg Law

Environmentalists and career staff at the EPA are taking steps to shield the agency’s work from political influence.

6/21/24 | Bloomberg Law

Environmental groups say the Stafford Act’s broad language gives FEMA the authority to respond to extreme heat and wildfire smoke.

11/13/24 | Sierra Magazine

These state officials are the next frontier of climate mitigation, but many still lack the authority to coordinate across government agencies.

1/14/25 | Space.com

By the end of the week, Valeriia Subotina and Mariia Chekh would be back at war. But, for the moment, they were in a starkly different environment: on a cruise ship in Antarctica.

7/8/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

The 600-pound disembodied dachshunds, relics of the 1980s, were removed last month after one of them, named Manny, was lit on fire. The installation was always intended to be temporary.

8/14/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

A growing body of research suggests valley fever, a respiratory disease spread by fungal spores that grow in soil, is gaining a foothold farther north, driven by warming temperatures and extreme swings in rainfall and drought tied to climate change.

8/26/22 | The Charlotte Observer

16.2 million tons of coal ash still sit in towering mounds that are expected to take until December 2035 to excavate.

7/10/22 | The Charlotte Observer

The decision in West Virginia v. EPA will make it harder for the federal government to combat human-caused climate change, but plans to cut emissions at the state level are unlikely to change. 

6/21/23 | San Francisco Chronicle

One scientist compared cooking with gas to standing “over the tailpipe of a car, breathing in its pollution.” About 70% of California households have gas stoves.

9/10/24 | Sierra Magazine

Electricians are essential to a renewable energy future, but there aren’t nearly enough of them.

4/27/23 | The Eagle

Several American University students were accidentally given ballots for the wrong neighborhood commission seat in the November election.

10/27/21 | The Eagle

Some public health experts say the district’s vaccine awards program isn’t working well enough, but it may be too early to tell.

March 2021 | The Noe Valley Voice

Clair’s antique clock repair shop has been extra busy during the pandemic.