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Opposing fracking cost one Colombian activist her mental health. She’s fighting to win it back.
"At some point, they will kill you and kill all of us," environmental leader Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco was told.
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The elected officials making political hay from disasters
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake, and today we’re going to be talking about how a politician’s disaster response can influence voter attitudes and election outcomes. In July 2022, a storm dropped more than 14 inches of rain on Kentucky, sending flash floods rolling through the mountainous counties in the […]
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London saw a surprising benefit to fining high-polluting cars: More active kids
Four in 10 London children stopped driving and started walking to school a year after the city's clean air zone went into effect.
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Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?
Curbing the carbon footprint of what we eat won’t require an agricultural revolution. It's already happening in farms and ranches across the country.
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Thawing Alaskan permafrost is unleashing more mercury, confirming scientists’ worst fears
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Washington solar project paused amid concern about Indigenous sites
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Canada’s first ‘prisoner of conscience’ is an Indigenous land defender
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Indigenous youth are at the center of major climate lawsuits. Here’s why they’re suing.
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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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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Top 5 takeaways of our investigation into state trust lands on reservations
An investigation by Grist and High Country News reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on tribal lands.
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![A close-up shot of the faces of two brown cows, one in the foreground and one in midground, as they sit in a field of green grass]()
Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no easy feat.
At least two-thirds of methane emissions come from human activity, which is both a problem and an opportunity.
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In coal-rich Kentucky, a new green aluminum plant could bring jobs and clean energy
Labor and state leaders wants to land the first new U.S. smelter in 45 years. But the deal won’t happen unless Kentucky can furnish lots of clean energy.
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‘Weather whiplash’ helped drive this year’s California wildfires
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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No one should be surprised that South America is burning
Climate scientists have been saying this would happen for years. It will only get worse from here.
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The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt.
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Request for Support: Hot Mamas Garage
A funding proposal for an EV retrofit shop opens old wounds between a mother and child as they reexamine their troubled family history.
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Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work.
A new study suggests that framing the issue in terms of American values holds promise.
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