{ "entity": "GreenNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "greennews.com", "vertical": "Climate & Energy", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-08-14T21:50:51.550Z", "articles": [ { "title": "A Green Oasis Grows in North Philadelphia’s Heat Island", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/community-garden-transforms-north-philadelphia-heat-island/", "summary": "In the concrete jungle of North Philadelphia, a garden blooms in vivid color. Flowers, vegetable beds and fruit trees thrive on a quiet street corner where the rattle of trains passing overhead or music escaping from a car’s open window are the only disruptions to the chatter of ", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:55:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Your gas car works fine. Consider an EV anyway, scientists say.", "url": "https://grist.org/solutions/your-gas-car-works-fine-consider-an-ev-anyway-scientists-say/", "summary": "New research suggests that swapping your internal combustion engine for an EV is almost always the greener choice.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "The Data Center Industry’s PR Blitz Is Backfiring", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/data-center-pr-blitz-backfiring/", "summary": "HENDERSON, N.C.—On a recent summer evening Mitzi Parrott, who lives in Vance County, saw a television commercial on the evening news that gave her pause. Kathie Hamm and Bobbie Lequire, also of Vance County, saw it, too, streaming on Sling and posted on Nextdoor. The ad extolled ", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Florida Makes It Harder for Residents Living on Radioactive Soil From Former Phosphate Mines to Sue", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/florida-law-makes-it-harder-to-sue-phosphate-mines-for-radioactive-so/", "summary": "“What happens when you get exposure to radioactivity?” Andy Mele remembers the man asking earnestly as he pulled up his shirt. The man, who looked like he couldn’t be older than 35, exposed his swollen belly to the Florida sun, covered in bulges protruding from under his skin, Me", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:55:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Microplastics Found in Mexican Howler Monkeys Living in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082026/mexican-howler-monkeys-microplastics/", "summary": "For thousands of years, Mexican howler monkeys have inhabited the lush rainforest canopy of what is now Los Tuxtlas—a 155,000-acre UNESCO biosphere reserve in the eastern state of Veracruz, 325 miles southeast of Mexico City. Every morning at around 4:30 a.m., these dark-haired p", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:50:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark", "url": "https://grist.org/regulation/the-epas-data-on-cancer-risk-from-air-pollution-has-gone-dark/", "summary": "For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can", "url": "https://grist.org/extreme-heat/congress-may-kill-the-federal-heat-rule-before-osha-can/", "summary": "The Biden-era heat safety rule was already languishing. Now, in a summer of record-breaking heat, a congressional committee has moved to block it entirely. What gives?", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Maryland Breaks Heat-Related Death Record With Weeks of Summer to Go", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/maryland-breaks-heat-deaths-record/", "summary": "This article has been updated. Prolonged heatwaves pushed death tolls to new levels this year in Maryland, which recorded its highest number of heat-related deaths with more than a month left of summer.  At least 70 deaths across the U.S. were linked to the heat domes that covere", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:20:09 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Montana’s Sand Creek Fire Burns Through Into Beloved Ski Area", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/montana-sand-creek-fire-burns-maverick-mountain-ski-area/", "summary": "The Sand Creek Fire had grown to 27,736 acres on Thursday after burning through parts of Maverick Mountain Ski Area in southwestern Montana, but firefighters succeeded in protecting the ski lodge and nearby Elkhorn Hot Springs as the blaze pushed through the area. Philip Knaub, o", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:12:06 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "So Much Solar: Digging Into the List of Every US Power Plant That Went Online This Year", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/inside-clean-energy-new-us-power-plants/", "summary": "It’s been a wild first half of the year in the U.S. power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy projects coming online. At times of rapid change, forecasting is difficult. So I feel a measure of comfort focusing on ", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Wildfires and Extreme Heat Challenge Water Activist’s Attempt to Run the Length of the Colorado River", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/colorado-river-wildfires-and-heat-challenges-ultrarunner/", "summary": "Mina Guli had run more than 25 miles when she saw the plume of smoke towering over the Utah desert. The Australian ultrarunner was preparing to run another 25 miles in the morning, but watching the nearby wildfire grow made it impossible to relax and rest up for the next day’s mi", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "AI Applications for Oil and Gas Companies Worsen Climate Pollution", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13082026/ai-enables-oil-and-gas-production/", "summary": "The “enabled emissions” that come when oil and gas drillers use artificial intelligence to find and exploit new energy reserves are far more damaging to the climate than the emissions that come from the data centers that power AI platforms, a new study by two former Microsoft emp", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:50:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.", "url": "https://grist.org/indigenous/texas-carrizo-comecrudo-juan-mancias-climate-indigenous-identity/", "summary": "The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "5 takeaways from our investigation into the ‘ghost’ tribe that got millions in climate funding", "url": "https://grist.org/indigenous/5-takeaways-from-our-investigation-into-the-ghost-tribe-that-got-millions-in-climate-funding/", "summary": "The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s rise shows how the climate movement can validate unverified claims of Indigenous identity — with consequences for Indigenous peoples and climate action.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:40:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "As Montana warms, Missoula’s first heat map reveals hidden hotspots", "url": "https://grist.org/extreme-heat/as-montana-warms-missoulas-first-heat-map-reveals-hidden-hotspots/", "summary": "The mapping effort is uncovering unexpected patterns, with some undeveloped and heavily forested areas holding more heat than researchers anticipated.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Chicago Mayor Seeks to Curb Health and Environmental Impacts of Data Centers", "url": "https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12082026/chicago-mayor-data-center-regulations/", "summary": "Chicago environmental justice advocates say a new effort in the city to regulate data centers is an important step toward addressing public health and affordability concerns as national pressure on the industry grows.  Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Tuesday di", "source": "insideclimatenews.org", "published": "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:59:50 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Scientists define a new category of heat wave: ‘Snow eaters’", "url": "https://grist.org/science/new-heat-wave-category-snow-eaters-study/", "summary": "Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000", "image": null }, { "title": "Some Nebraska communities are cashing in on renewables. Others are being left behind.", "url": "https://grist.org/cities/some-nebraska-communities-are-cashing-in-on-renewables-others-are-being-left-behind/", "summary": "More than 88 percent of the taxes on wind and solar went to just 10 of the state’s 93 counties.", "source": "grist.org", "published": "Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0000", "image": null } ] }