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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
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In New England, Canadian hydropower has slowed to an ominous trickle
Whether due to drought, prices, or politics, the weekslong disappearance of Canadian hydropower from New England’s grid exposes risks for the region.
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Closures of EPA’s regional environmental justice offices will hurt rural America
Former EPA employees warn that rural and underserved communities across the country will be left with fewer protections against environmental health hazards and limited options for recourse.
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Did climate change supercharge the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ storm pummeling the central US?
A relentless storm is unleashing floods and tornadoes. Here's how a warmer atmosphere and a simmering Gulf of Mexico could be making it worse.
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The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost?
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The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
Inside the little-understood fight between deep sea miners and Indigenous advocates for the ocean.
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The quest to fix the irony at the heart of every heat pump
The appliances are key to ditching fossil fuels, but they rely on powerful greenhouse gases to work. Here’s how to tackle that problem.
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A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf
Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."
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FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.
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A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate-health funding
Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.
