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Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities
From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings.
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.
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Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer
The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems.
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![Collage of yellow circles containing a West Nile virus micrograph on top of a photo of a lake with low water levels]()
In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving
Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works.
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![An illustration shows a bus in the pouring rain, lit by a comforting yellow glow. A person is getting on with a broken bicycle.]()
![An illustration shows a bus in the pouring rain, lit by a comforting yellow glow. A person is getting on with a broken bicycle.]()
It Takes a Full Bus
What happens when a hitchhiker stranded far from home meets a bus full of passengers who all have somewhere to be?
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Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.
An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
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How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks
Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards.
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Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development
The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public.
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![A new Amtrak Airo train, built for the Amtrak Cascades route, moves across an open landscape.]()
![A new Amtrak Airo train, built for the Amtrak Cascades route, moves across an open landscape.]()
All aboard Amtrak’s sleeker, cleaner new trains
The $8-billion Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership — and faces an uncertain future in Washington.
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US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands
The proposal to replace an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes still needs state approval. Tribal nations say the federal review violates treaty rights.
