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The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.
A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the U.N.’s new loss and damage fund.
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US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.
Excessive levels of PFAS have been detected at 80 percent of active and decommissioned military bases.
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A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
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A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it
Construction of the pilot project on U.S. Highway 52 began this month. State officials hope it can help quell range anxiety and electrify long-haul trucks.
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Extreme Weather
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The world’s 4th coral bleaching event has officially arrived
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FEMA is making an example of this Florida boomtown. Locals call it ‘revenge politics.’
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Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect the Pine Ridge reservation from wildfires
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North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.
Indigenous Affairs
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Indigenous advocates at the UN say the green transition is neither clean nor just
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Acre by acre, the Prairie Band Potawatomi bought back their land
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Indigenous peoples rush to stop ‘false climate solutions’ ahead of next international climate meeting
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A gigantic green energy transmission project will cut through Indigenous lands in the Southwest
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization
Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.
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Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
From harassment to kidnapping and arrest, Indigenous advocates who face reprisals for their work say the U.N. must protect them.
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Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?
With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.
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Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law
Twenty-three states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice.
Watch This
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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident.
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On the agenda this Earth Day: A global treaty to end plastic pollution
This week, delegates continue negotiations for a global plastics treaty. They have a lot to do.
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As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
“Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
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How should Georgia elect key utility regulators? US Supreme Court is asked to weigh in.
Elections for the state's Public Service Commission have been on hold for years.
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