Data is Power: How Access to D...

Sep 5, 2019 by

Lessons and applications from the Atlantic and the Arctic.

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5 Takeaways From the Democrats...

Sep 5, 2019 by

Over a marathon seven hours on Wednesday, 10 of the Democratic presidential candidates participated in back-to-back CNN town hall events on climate change, fielding questions from audience members and several of the network’s top anchors.

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How Has Climate Change Affecte...

Sep 4, 2019 by

The links between hurricanes and climate change are complex, but some aspects are getting clearer.

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A step too far for the Appalac...

Sep 4, 2019 by

The Trump administration wants to allow a pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail on federal lands. Congress should say no.

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Can Europe make trade into a t...

Sep 4, 2019 by

Many increasingly see environmental crises like the fires in the Amazon as global concerns. But how can remote actors like the EU make a difference, especially when regional players seem uninterested?

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Follow the Money to the Amazon

Sep 4, 2019 by

Who is profiting from the development that led to these fires?

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Kelp is a win for you, the oce...

Aug 30, 2019 by

Americans tend to think of seaweed as the stuff that gets stuck to your legs when you go swimming at the beach—not a food that’s highly nutritious, easy to grow, and beneficial to ocean ecosystems.

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USDA Buries Sweeping Plan Prio...

Aug 30, 2019 by

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) prevented the release of a plan for how the agency can effectively respond to the impacts of climate change, such as by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through practices like increasing carbon storage in crops and soils.

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Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policie...

Aug 30, 2019 by

On Tuesday, the Trump administration reportedly ended its “medical deferred action” program, which allows immigrants with serious health problems to stay in the U.S. for up to two years beyond the terms of their visas to receive critical treatment.

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The U.S. Border Patrol and an ...

Aug 29, 2019 by

[Translate] On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking...

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“God Told Me to Fight”—Inside ...

Aug 29, 2019 by

Houses, several churches, and an elementary school would all be about a mile away.

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Trump moves to allow logging i...

Aug 28, 2019 by

Meanwhile, the Amazon burns.

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‘They just dump you here...

Aug 27, 2019 by

The tiny flats are cheap to build, but critics say their use shows ‘something has gone very wrong’

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Farmers’ Frustration With Trum...

Aug 27, 2019 by

Peppered with complaints from farmers fed up with President Trump’s trade war, Sonny Perdue found his patience wearing thin. Mr. Perdue, the agriculture secretary and the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering in southern Minnesota this month, tried to break the ice with a joke.

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Exclusive: In a Devastated Tow...

Aug 23, 2019 by

The 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.

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How plastics contribute to cli...

Aug 23, 2019 by

They generate heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.

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PHOTOS: The Amazon Rainforest,...

Aug 23, 2019 by

International concern is growing over the rapidly spreading fires that are destroying large swaths of the Amazon rainforest

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Air Monitoring Reveals Troubli...

Aug 23, 2019 by

Residents in South Portland, Maine, packed a meeting to find out about the noxious fumes fouling the air they breathe. The news, one official said, was bad.

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MAR VISTA FARMERS MARKET FACES...

Aug 22, 2019 by

From skyrocketing property values to the much-beleaguered Venice Boulevard road diet, Mar Vista has seen its ups and downs. Sadly, the neighborhood’s latest hot-potato issue is the homeless encampment that occupies the two blocks dedicated to Sunday’s popular Mar Vista Farmers Market.

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Appeals Court Rules Against Co...

Aug 22, 2019 by

Western coal states want an export terminal on the Columbia River. Washington state has concerns about the company and its environmental and climate impact.

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Lawsuit filed over awful chang...

Aug 22, 2019 by

Environmental and animal protection groups have sued the administration over the Trump-Bernhardt ‘extinction plan.’

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Climate strike organizers pled...

Aug 21, 2019 by

One year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20

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Without Bees, We Are in Troubl...

Aug 21, 2019 by

Can an alliance of Germany’s political parties save them?

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A Republican Firm Is Targeting...

Aug 21, 2019 by

America Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.

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“Humanitarian Aid Is Never a C...

Aug 20, 2019 by

Volunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

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‘The next Flint,’ and America’...

Aug 19, 2019 by

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply.

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Fracking and Shale Drilling Ca...

Aug 16, 2019 by

Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That’s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society.

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Top CDC Health and Climate Sci...

Aug 16, 2019 by

He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.

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The Trump administration tried...

Aug 16, 2019 by

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.

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How One Billionaire Could Keep...

Aug 15, 2019 by

Australia — The vast, untapped coal reserve in northeastern Australia had for years been the object of desire for the Indian industrial giant Adani.

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