BeyondKONA: Politics & Policy

Residents of Thini village in Nepal face worsening damage to ancestral mudbrick homes as increasing rain and snow cause leaks and weaken walls.

Decades of progress against extreme poverty may stall or reverse, with those living on under $3 a day projected to rise after 2030.

Nearly 90% of proposed Texas petrochemical projects are placed in counties with high poverty and people-of-color populations, worsening pollution burdens.

As the federal government touts a new initiative to boost infant formula safety, decades-old regulatory voids and the rise of controversial third-party testers […]

New research shows that microplastic concentrations across Lake Erie have risen dramatically over the past decade, with some areas recording increases from […]

Well before Maine's PFAS ban took effect, the “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, birth defects and other serious health problems had tainted […]

Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory […]

In a recent opinion paper published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology […]

The infection is responsible for 800,000 newborn deaths each year, but clinics in eight countries are working together to find new treatments

The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing […]

The move could offer an early test of the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulatory agenda.

Chinese solar equipment has been flooding African markets, partly as a ripple effect of the US-China trade war. It's one of several factors helping the […]

As Australians face a maelstrom of interconnected disasters, the climate catastrophe has become just one of many things to doomscroll about

INEOS plans to transform the Nini oil field in the North Sea into a carbon storage site. The company aims to inject liquefied CO2 into depleted oil reservoirs […]

With no consensus among stakeholders, PJM Interconnection’s 10-member board now must craft a policy for surging data-center demand that has already driven up […]

All prior five-year drilling plans — dating back to 1980 — reference National Environmental Policy Act analyses.

The Trump administration is withdrawing a proposal to require cosmetic companies to test their talc-containing products for asbestos, according to a public […]

The ban takes particular aim at use of glyphosate in forestry, though it's not clear if it will impact private land.

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.

More than a hundred chemicals in pesticides, plastics and other products that people are routinely exposed to stifle the growth of health-promoting gut […]

How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science.

The World Health Organization’s cancer research agency has classified atrazine — the second most widely used herbicide in the United States – as […]

Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.

Leading chemicals companies have quietly begun to phase out production of “forever chemicals” as the risk of litigation grows and the European Union looks […]

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to […]

Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.

'Atmospheric water generation' is inching from sci-fi to reality in communities that lack access to potable water.

The new proposal contains an ambiguous term the Supreme Court never contemplated in its blockbuster 2023 water ruling.

Glen Clark sat down for a wide-ranging interview with The Tyee.