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Byline: Shannon Osaka Should you still be using black plastic? That was the question for many Americans after a study last year discovered high levels of flame retardants in cooking [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For the past few years, scientists have watched, aghast, as global temperatures have surged - with both 2023 and 2024 reaching around 1.5 degrees Celsius above the [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Jake Spring States trying to build a network of EV chargers are reeling after the Trump administration abruptly ordered a halt to a $5 billion program to [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Jake Spring In a memo released Thursday, the Federal Highway Administration ordered states to halt a $5 billion program to build fast EV chargers on highways nationwide [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For years, renewable energy proponents have hoped to build a U.S. electric grid powered by wind, solar, geothermal and - to a lesser extent - nuclear power, [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For years, California has oscillated between torrential rain and dry, tinderbox-like conditions - setting the stage for the fires raging across the Los Angeles area and forcing [...]

Byline: Pranshu Verma, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Shannon Osaka Earlier this year, top executives at Tesla gathered in Palo Alto to sell CEO Elon Musk on a line of compact [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Maxine Joselow, Sarah Kaplan For almost a decade, climate scientists and environmental leaders have coalesced around a rallying cry: 'Keep 1.5 alive.' It's a reference to the [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Almost two decades ago, the atmosphere's levels of methane - a dangerous greenhouse gas that is over 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in the short [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Almost two decades ago, the atmosphere's levels of methane - a dangerous greenhouse gas that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short [...]

Byline: Niko Kommenda, Shannon Osaka, John Muyskens Two years ago, Congress passed the biggest climate bill in U.S. history - the Inflation Reduction Act, which spurred growth in solar panels, [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Sales of solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles have soared over the last few years - helping to slow global warming and take dangerous pollutants out of [...]

Byline: Kevin Crowe, Shannon Osaka, Molly Hennessy-Fiske In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, [...]

Byline: Kevin Crowe, Shannon Osaka, Molly Hennessy-Fiske In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Sarah Kaplan Asheville, N.C., seemed like an ideal place to escape the worst effects of global warming. In recent years, media outlets and real estate agents named [...]

Every year on Aug. 20, meteorologists at Colorado State University ring a bell to signal the start of peak hurricane season - a weeks-long stretch when hot ocean temperatures tend [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Two young climate activists shocked the world in October 2022 when they flung cans of tomato soup over the renowned painting 'Sunflowers' by Vincent van Gogh. Now, [...]

Byline: Simon Ducroquet, Shannon Osaka The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year - plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka One of the world's oldest living organisms - which once sprouted next to giant ground sloths and other prehistoric creatures - will soon sit 550 feet from [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka, Emily Wright DAVIS, Calif. - Sushi, a four-week-old Holstein calf, was lying in a pen under the hum of a metal fan when a group of professors [...]

Byline: Emily Giambalvo, Shannon Osaka, Candace Buckner PARIS - The U.S. women's gymnastics team has recaptured here what eluded it in Tokyo: gold. After Simone Biles's struggles led to silver [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka As heat surges around the country - bringing temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, brutal humidity, and crippled emergency responses - workable air conditioning can serve as [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka JURUPA VALLEY, CALIF. - At first glance, one of the world's oldest living organisms doesn't look like much - a collection of shrubs nestled atop a hill [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas. Earth has already warmed by [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka EDINBURGH - Last month this Scottish city - filled with medieval spires and shadowed by the looming castle on the hill said to have inspired the Harry [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka There is one big thing holding the United States back from a pollution-free electricity grid running on wind, solar and battery power: not enough power lines. As [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For the past decade, Louisiana's program for coastal protection has been hailed as one of the best in the country, after the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For the past few years, electric vehicles have flooded onto America's roads: Tesla Model 3s, Hyundai Ioniq 5s, even the occasional electric Hummer. In 2023, automakers sold [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Electric cars have taken off across the United States. Even amid news of slowing sales, the country sold almost 1.2 million fully electric vehicles in 2023, more [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka More than a decade ago, the Netherlands embarked on a straightforward plan to cut carbon emissions. Its legislature raised taxes on natural gas, using the money earned [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Every year, companies produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic. Some of that plastic spills onto waterways or beaches, clogging streams or floating in huge [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka In sunny California, solar panels are everywhere. They sit in dry, desert landscapes in the Central Valley and are scattered over rooftops in Los Angelesâs urban center. [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka When the Toyota Prius cruised into North America for the first time in the early aughts, drivers were shocked. At a time when the average sedan got [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka President Biden has long vowed to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations in the United States by 2030. Those stations, the White House said, would help Americans [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Republican state lawmakers are going after a new threat they say could cause harm to the environment - and playing into a baseless claim at the same [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka The United States suffers the worldÇÖs second-highest toll from major weather disasters, according to a new analysis - even when numbers are adjusted for the countryÇÖs wealth. [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For Dick Vethaak, the âahaâ moment came when microplastics were discovered in the air. It was 2015, and the ecotoxicologist and professor emeritus at VU Amsterdam had [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka If you try to imagine a âgreenâ car, an EV is probably the first thing that comes to mind. A silent motor with tons of torque; no [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka For decades, the United States has built and expanded a 220,000-mile network of state and interstate highways, easing cross-country travel while dividing cities and boosting suburban sprawl. [...]

Byline: Shannon Osaka Itâs official: For the past 12 months, the Earth was 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than in preindustrial times, scientists said Thursday, crossing a critical barrier into temperatures [...]