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Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame
After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.
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The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?
With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools — and legal right — to fulfill this EPA function.
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At least 170 US hospitals face major flood risk. Experts say Trump is making it worse.
At many of these facilities, flooding from heavy storms has the potential to jeopardize patient care, block access to emergency rooms, and force evacuations.
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How disasters change our love lives — for better and for worse
Some couples broke under the pressure of Hurricane Helene. Others found something solid and surprising in each other.
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Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.
A recent report shows that the state’s farm-to-school grant program has been effective at supporting economically disadvantaged farmers in the face of mounting federal cuts.
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![Molly Wilcox, of Damariscotta,holds a candle in front of a sign supporting Juliana v. US during a candlelight rally organized by 350 Maine in support of the plaintiffs in downtown Portland on Monday, October 29, 2018.]()
![Molly Wilcox, of Damariscotta,holds a candle in front of a sign supporting Juliana v. US during a candlelight rally organized by 350 Maine in support of the plaintiffs in downtown Portland on Monday, October 29, 2018.]()
The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet
They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
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5 things to know about the fungal infection valley fever
Learn how the disease spreads, how to recognize common symptoms, and how it's diagnosed and treated.
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Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change
National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.
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![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
![Urban planner and public artist Sabina Sethi Unni stars as an humanized flood sensor – a tool that detects high water levels and delivers that data to a publicly-accessible map - in her community play Flood Sensor Aunty.]()
An absurdist theater artist prepares New Yorkers for climate disasters
"Sometimes a one-page pamphlet translated into two languages isn’t the best way for people to receive information, but a song about go-bags played on the synth is."
