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![Volunteers guide frogs and salamanders across a rain-slicked road marked with]()
![Volunteers guide frogs and salamanders across a rain-slicked road marked with]()
One night a year, humans command this march of frogs and salamanders
The first warm, wet spring night sends frogs and salamanders from the forest, bearing fresh evidence of threats from warming winters, drying pools, and traffic.
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Indigenous peoples bear the brunt of climate change — and get almost none of the money to fight it
Billion-dollar climate funds have structural barriers that keep Indigenous peoples from accessing them. Advocates say that's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Illinois is feuding with itself over endangered species protections
The state Department of Transportation has sidestepped endangered species protections in 11 cases, according to public records.
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He’s the only lead tester in this contaminated neighborhood. He graduates next month.
The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.
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This Supreme Court ‘victory’ for oil giants is not what it seems
A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron and other oil majors to pay is far from over.
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![Kenneth Deer, a member of the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke, at the UN.]()
![Kenneth Deer, a member of the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawà:ke, at the UN.]()
Nearly two decades after landmark Indigenous rights declaration, countries still aren’t complying
At the U.N., global leaders say governments must stop talking and start implementing protections they adopted.
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The world is getting too hot to feed itself
A new U.N. report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.
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The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities
To adapt to a rapidly warming world, metropolises are looking to green roofs, which boost biodiversity and reduce temperatures and flooding.
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![Environmental and Native American activists rally to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac.]()
![Environmental and Native American activists rally to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline, which runs under the Straits of Mackinac.]()
Michigan wins key legal battle over Line 5 pipeline
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling clears the way for state court proceedings in the decades-long dispute over the pipeline crossing between Lakes Michigan and Huron.
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How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage
A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.
