Ned Tapa has spent his life along New Zealand’s Whanganui River. For Tapa, a Māori leader, the river is not a resource to be managed or a commodity to be owned. It is an ancestor. A living being. A life force. https://loom.ly/em0QC_0

Notably, East Trenton is a newly named Superfund Site for health risks related to its historic pottery industry, and lead-based pottery is still found in the soil of residential yards. https://loom.ly/7bXmong

Several global trends are colliding with disastrous consequences for health and the environment, new research warns. https://loom.ly/t9vC4UU

Many different creatures call the American prairie home, from the lovable, shaggy buffalo to the endangered rusty patched bumblebee. https://loom.ly/yZ5Tzrw

Nearly 80 percent of Arizona has no regulations on the use of groundwater, which is the main source of water for most communities. https://loom.ly/H8LmYbE

The State Corporation Commission in November 2025 approved a new Dominion Energy rate increase for 2026 that will add $16 a month to the typical residential bill and assign more costs to data center operators to cover necessary grid upgrades the following year. https://loom.ly/epH_EI8

On a recent autumn morning in Tempe, Arizona, dozens of kids made their way to class on an unusual “bus.” https://loom.ly/B0yBhWY

Venezuela’s oil infrastructure is in disarray after a generation of authoritarian rule. https://loom.ly/NkSMkuo

Former EPA staffers led by EPN urged legislators to adopt the Senate’s bipartisan approach to funding the nation’s environmental regulators to halt what they called the dismantling of protections for Americans’ health. https://loom.ly/Wsyl1hk

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted to eliminate the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and three other programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, or UNL. https://loom.ly/HGdMl-I

Four months have passed since a Louisiana oil facility burst apart, spewing a dense black sludge that drifted across homes, farms, and waterways as far as 50 miles away. https://loom.ly/qiLTOpQ

Desflurane is more than 7,000 times more effective at warming the planet over a 20-year period than carbon dioxide on a pound-for-pound basis. https://loom.ly/ZIlICeo

There is a library of studies trying to understand the connection between chronic pain and weather, but no single theory has prevailed in the medical establishment. https://loom.ly/IaW-4ik

The Port Everglades expansion has been under development for more than a decade, with repeated delays due to concerns from federal scientists and conservation groups about the scale of environmental damage the dredging could cause. https://loom.ly/tdTwP9o

Clothing production accounts for 10 percent of total global carbon emissions, consumes and contaminates large amounts of water, and 85 percent of textiles made end up in landfills. https://loom.ly/DLZ06tw

Toxic particle pollution, from sources like vehicle and industrial emissions, biomass combustion and crop burning, can cause illness, birth defects and early death, also harming child development, fertility, heart health and cognition. https://loom.ly/vEqU-tc

The Valley Fire lasted for three weeks and burned more than 10,000 acres, including about half of the bird research station’s grounds. https://loom.ly/GR5uLks

The Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., or CATL, is nearing completion on what could be one of Europe’s largest electric vehicle battery factories. https://loom.ly/-WpCsDM

New York City is expected to experience increasing rainfall over the next few decades, especially during cloudbursts—short, intense rainfall events. https://loom.ly/3KgO2Wc

The band’s first climate-focused album, “Room to Grow,” is a 10-song invitation to climate action, laying out what’s at stake and why the natural world is worth protecting. https://loom.ly/MZkQjN8

The Florida Everglades is where a $27 billion restoration effort is among the most ambitious of its kind in human history. https://loom.ly/TRELs8A

The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders—and what that means for the environment. https://loom.ly/LgRZWA4

The Delta’s history is America’s. At its heart are the island mounds of Bottle Creek, the “principal political and religious center” for the Indigenous Pensacola culture for 300 years before European contact. https://loom.ly/xNPOY_8

PFAS are manmade chemicals that give the materials they coat heat-, water-, and stain-resistant properties. They have been used in consumer products since the 1950s, but since the chemicals’ risks for human health came to light in the early 2000s. https://loom.ly/Bd-GX-4

Chris Warner has been harvesting seafood in coastal Maine since he was a teenager. It’s never been easy, but he’s never let the obstacles stand in his way. Sometimes, he says, it feels like he’s spent 34 years in an endless state of adaptation. https://loom.ly/__d7W4o

Even from the base of the mountain, the crew could see that the peak’s trees were bare and blackened. It was clear the fire had reached the station. https://loom.ly/GR5uLks

In September, hundreds of residents dove into the Chicago River for the first open swim in nearly a century. https://loom.ly/samPxos

Radioactive elements such as radium, uranium and thorium in rocks deep underground come to the surface as a byproduct of oil and gas drilling. https://loom.ly/gpZb_Sw

Decades of experience may well come in handy as New Jersey, the nation’s most densely populated state, is likely to experience more significant flooding in the years to come. https://loom.ly/-Eti60E

Climate extremes overlapped and compounded, pushing humanitarian relief systems beyond their limits. https://loom.ly/AVrylx8

The public rate cases that had become so toxic under George Wallace had been eliminated, but those hearings served as the best method for the public to gain insight into how their power bills were calculated, and which utility decisions they were paying for. https://loom.ly/_sFrvz0

Debt swaps, for nature, development projects and more, are not new. Western creditors have been experimenting with versions of them since the 1980s. https://loom.ly/WbS0lNQ

For western Maine, weather extremes are apparent. The area is experiencing more days above 90 degrees in the summer, earlier spring thaws and less snowfall in the winter. https://loom.ly/8nxWB3c

For Peru, the recent opening of the port here was the realization, nearly two decades in the making, of a dream to position itself as South America’s global transportation hub. https://loom.ly/plT6YdI

Across Georgia, nearly 15 percent of families are food insecure, meaning they have limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to Feeding America. https://loom.ly/H9GPeH4

The Finnish government released its Truth and Reconciliation report, which documents years of harm done to the country’s Indigenous Sámi people. https://loom.ly/HooMrC0

Gussie Lord of Earthjustice said litigation is going to be an uphill battle, but adds that the Bad River Band believes it’s their responsibility to protect the area’s watershed and environment. https://loom.ly/ts_wQdc

Puerto Rico’s electrical grid was in bad shape before Maria, but blackouts have become routine in the years since the storm. Maria hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 miles per hour. https://loom.ly/f6SPJAI

Natural gas compressor stations have a significant negative impact on local communities’ air quality, emitting volatile organic compounds. https://loom.ly/j4hkruU

Several studies have shown that grizzly mortality increases with road density, including around Yellowstone. https://loom.ly/CChPy5o

Illinois is lagging on battery storage, projects that collect solar and wind energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. https://loom.ly/0jVDiws

The rediscovery of an ancient settlement site, sandwiched between industrial complexes on Corpus Christi Bay, has spurred a campaign for its preservation by Native American groups in South Texas. https://loom.ly/dg8KcSs

Oil and gas companies operating in Pennsylvania reported creating nearly 8.8 million tons of solid waste between 2017 and 2024. https://loom.ly/pqZ8uEE

Much of the western U.S. has been unusually warm for this time of year, leading to low levels of snowpack in mountain ranges from British Columbia to California. https://loom.ly/AqK7rJE

Nonprofits, churches, universities, and other groups have taken many approaches to rural hunger. https://loom.ly/H9GPeH4

The volatility of wind resources in winter, paired with the greater chance of thermal outages, are the difficult parts of wintertime within ERCOT. https://loom.ly/n4Ix2pE

The impact of this thermal stress on the kelp is a complex process. They tend to do poorly in warming waters and begin to disintegrate when temperatures reach higher than 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). https://loom.ly/jQhdMbM

How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up? Despite state efforts to track it, there’s no way to know for sure. https://loom.ly/OldeveY

Five-feet-tall, monogamous and known for elaborate dances, barely two dozen of these birds remained a century ago. https://loom.ly/gojD4n4

In Pennsylvania, contamination from fracking is layered on top of earlier waves of pollution from coal mining, manufacturing and oil drilling. https://loom.ly/pqZ8uEE