Extreme heat is increasingly a serious public health issue in many parts of the world, including in Jackson, Mississippi. 2°C Mississippi, a Jackson-based climate change organization, is collaborating ...

Days after Hurricane Ida roared through coastal Louisiana, sending a 12-foot storm surge rushing across the marshlands south of New Orleans, Plaquemines Parish Fire Department Capt. Kevin Coleman was ...

A little more than a month ago, Plaquemines Parish officials were toasting a landmark $745-million judgment against Chevron for damaging the marshes and coastal fishing areas of Louisiana. The ...

The author, Carlos Carabaña, in the field. For the story, his team worked more than seven months, obtained various confidential documents and archival video, took 10 field trips and interviewed 30 ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. ST. LOUIS — Robin Proudie remembers working concessions at the old Busch Stadium as a teenager, selling popcorn and peanuts to hungry ...

Two major American universities are in the news, thanks to the spadework of a number of small, independent news and research organizations. Newly unearthed documents reveal that the oil and ...

On Valentine’s Day I am thinking of love, and I’m worried about consumption. Love because it’s the foundation of existence, what drives us to do what we do. Consumption because it will lead to our ...

Kindra Arnesen and her Louisiana fishing community have a lot to celebrate this Earth Day. (Photo courtesy of Kindra Arnesen) Kindra Arnesen and her family have spent their lives fishing for shrimp ...

Barataria Bay is a marshy jewel in the heart of the vast Louisiana bayou. Its unparalleled natural ecosystem was once a hideout for smugglers and malcontents like Jean Lafitte, who ruled the labyrinth ...

Human life is dependent on the dynamics of the Earth’s climate system. The interactions of the atmosphere, oceans, terrestrial and marine ecospheres, cryosphere and land surface determine the Earth’s ...

Alaska is facing some of the most imminent threats from climate change in the United States, with fast-rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and massive storms. The small Inuit village of Napakiak ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, Arizona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Last year, Lee Zeldin was a washed-up former four-term congressman from Long Island who ...