North America

Written by: Maia Wikler It’s nearly 2 in the morning and the sun is just beginning to set as Ben Stevens navigates the braided channels of the Yukon River toward his fish camp. Stevens is a traditional fisherman — Dinyee...

Written by: Kimberly White  Canada is taking a step forward in the battle against plastic pollution. The Canadian government will ban the manufacturing, import, and sale of harmful single-use plastics, with some regulations coming into effect later this year.  Canadian Prime...

Written by: Kimberly White The United States will provide $1 billion to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund.  President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would resume its contributions to the UN's flagship climate fund following a six-year hiatus with a...

Written by: Kimberly White Hawaii has become the first U.S. state to ban shark fishing.  Hawaiian Governor David Ige signed the shark protection bill into law on June 8th, one of nine bills the governor signed on World Oceans Day in...

Written by: Greg McDermid, David Laskin, and Scott Nielsen Toward the end of each summer, grizzly bears in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains gorge on the tart red berries of a shrub called Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis). Lacking the salmon of coastal...

Written by: YCC Team Fort Liberty — the North Carolina Army installation formerly known as Fort Bragg — is going solar in an unconventional way. The Army has put 2,700 solar panels on a lake at nearby Camp Mackall. The panels...

Written by: Mitchell Beer A new job training and upskilling program will open up a pathway to the clean energy economy for some of the 80 percent of Canadian fossil fuel workers who’ve said they want to move into net-zero...

Written by: YCC Team More than 25 million children in the U.S. ride school buses. And most of those buses spew diesel fumes that can worsen asthma and other conditions. “We’re literally making kids sick by sending them to school in...

Written by: Kimberly White NASA has created a new role to achieve the agency’s climate science objectives set out by the current U.S. Administration. The space agency has established the role of senior climate advisor.  “This position will provide NASA leadership...

Written by: Audrey Henderson Normal, Illinois, aspired to be part of the electric vehicle revolution long before Rivian came to town.  In 2011, Normal dubbed itself “EVTown” in a marketing effort to make the city an early destination for Mitsubishi’s all-electric i-MiEV subcompact....