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![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’
The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
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![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities are left to pay the price.
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![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm
Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague “national security” concerns.
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![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must close, but the fight isn’t over
A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed.
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Politics
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Energy projects across the country are in limbo after Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
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The unlikely coalition fighting to keep Energy Star labels on your appliances
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Following the USDA’s food and farm funding: Here’s what’s been canceled and frozen, and resources for those affected
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Can protecting nature be nonpartisan?
Solutions
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Clearing debris after a storm is big business. For some communities, it’s also a burden.
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Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives
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The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way
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A hidden fuel source beneath the Midwest? Scientists are investigating.
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![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
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![A massive industrial plant stretches over black and gray dirt.]()
![A massive industrial plant stretches over black and gray dirt.]()
A coal-fired plant in Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day.
The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.
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![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
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![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
Antarctica is in extreme peril
"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.
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![Demonstrators chant as lawmakers are welcomed back ahead of a House meeting in the state Capitol in Austin, Texas.]()
![Demonstrators chant as lawmakers are welcomed back ahead of a House meeting in the state Capitol in Austin, Texas.]()
How Texas flood relief got caught in a high-stakes political battle
As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.
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Inside a Georgia beach’s high-tech fight against erosion
Armed with drones and lasers, scientists are creating detailed 3D maps of Tybee Island’s shifting shoreline.
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![A large open-pit mine with terraced layers with several dump trucks and an excavator]()
![A large open-pit mine with terraced layers with several dump trucks and an excavator]()
US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals
There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles.
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![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them
Federal laws meant to protect land and wildlife are being misused to curb wind and solar development across the U.S.
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