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Thank you for supporting Inside Climate News! In the 04/26/2025 edition: How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases Maryland’s Climate Ambitions in Question After Turbulent Legislative Session She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads As US Dismantles Its Climate Policy, Other World Leaders Seek Solidarity Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President says Behind the Scenes: Communities Around ‘Last-Mile Warehouses’ Struggle With Online Shopping Boom’s Pollution ‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases “You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are trying to address it. STORY AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY BHABNA BANERJEE As global temperatures rise, the spread of infectious diseases is rapidly evolving in unexpected ways.    Maryland’s Climate Ambitions in Question After Turbulent Legislative Session Amid budgetary and political pressure, Maryland’s latest legislative session delivered some moderate wins while weakening or delaying key mandates. BY AMAN AZHAR Environmental leaders in Maryland are reeling from a challenging 2025 legislative session that left them questioning whether the state can still meet its clean energy and emissions reduction targets in the wake of policy rollbacks and carve-outs approved by lawmakers.   She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Laurene Allen of Merrimack, New Hampshire, dug into scientific research, organized neighbors and pressed officials to protect her community. She won a 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her tireless efforts. INTERVIEW BY STEVE CURWOOD, LIVING ON EARTH From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Laurene Allen, a Goldman Environmental Prize winner.   Snowflakes, Death Threats and Dollar Signs: Cloud Seeding Is at a Crossroads Utah has hundreds of devices shooting silver iodide into clouds, affordably increasing snowfall that can ease drought and drawing the eyes of other Western States. BY ALEX HAGER, KUNC Listen to an audio version of this story below.   As US Dismantles Its Climate Policy, Other World Leaders Seek Solidarity The day after a U.S. State Department proposal to shutter its climate-negotiations office, the U.N.’s secretary-general said, “No group or government can stop the clean energy revolution.” BY BOB BERWYN As the U.S. Department of State proposed this week to shut down its office managing international climate policy, leaders from several other countries that are key to the climate fight said they are determined to press ahead with global action.   Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President says Across five campuses, the University of Massachusetts System is incorporating climate into the curriculum and working with state leaders to meet climate goals. BY DENNIS PILLION University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan didn’t play it safe when giving his State of the University address at the UMass Boston campus this week.    Behind the Scenes: Communities Around ‘Last-Mile Warehouses’ Struggle With Online Shopping Boom’s Pollution A number of facilities have popped up around NYC to help accommodate the online shopping surge. Many environmental justice communities pay the toll of their pollution. BY KILEY PRICE Online shopping has reached epic proportions in the United States—and Manhattan is its beating heart. More than 2.4 million packages are delivered to New York City every weekday, and around 90 percent of goods are transported into or around the city by trucks.    ‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the displacement of their communities. BY LAUREN DALBAN The women had come from across the world, convening at the United Nations Plaza to share the struggles they’d faced reclaiming ancestral lands, fighting pollution from extractive industries and employing Indigenous knowledge to counter the climate crisis.