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![Collage of a worker wearing a hazmat suit cleaning up after wildfire, a worker repairing a power line, and a firefighter standing in a field]()
![Collage of a worker wearing a hazmat suit cleaning up after wildfire, a worker repairing a power line, and a firefighter standing in a field]()
The people behind America’s disaster recovery
From cleanup crews to powerline techs, these are the workers called in after catastrophe.
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Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too
As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them.
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![A small fishing boat sits in calm waters with two men on board]()
![A small fishing boat sits in calm waters with two men on board]()
Meet the small business owners electrifying Maine’s rural coast
In Casco Bay’s remote waters, electric workboats and the aquaculture innovators who operate them are putting marine electrification to the test.
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![Two boys stand on a roof overlooking a completely flooded street in a pretty red brick town ringed by forests]()
![Two boys stand on a roof overlooking a completely flooded street in a pretty red brick town ringed by forests]()
Trump DOJ seeks to kill Vermont law that makes Big Oil pay for climate harm
The Justice Department asked a judge to shut down the "Superfund" law that requires major polluters to pay for carbon emissions.
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![A fire rages at night with a transmission line in the foreground]()
![A fire rages at night with a transmission line in the foreground]()
Who pays for wildfire damage? In the West, utilities are shifting the risk to customers.
Utah laws cap wildfire damages and let utilities pass the cost onto customers. Utility lobbyists are pushing the model in other states.
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![A postal carrier makes deliveries in San Francisco, the mid-day sky darkened and orange from smoke wafting in from wildfires burning hundres of miles away.]()
![A postal carrier makes deliveries in San Francisco, the mid-day sky darkened and orange from smoke wafting in from wildfires burning hundres of miles away.]()
Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year
The haze may already kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year — the same number who die in traffic crashes. Climate change will only make matters worse.
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![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
![Collage of worker carrying solar panel, archival material from Sun Day 1978, and view of Capitol building]()
The politics of renewables are getting stranger. ‘Sun Day’ celebrates them anyway.
The national day of action arrives at a time when clean energy is becoming more polarized.
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![Activists demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice in July 2025.]()
![Activists demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice in July 2025.]()
Trump axes climate reporting program, ignoring international courts and frontline communities
“There is an international responsibility here, even if the U.S. still tries to deny that there is one."
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![RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins hold up ice cream cones]()
![RFK Jr. and Brooke Rollins hold up ice cream cones]()
How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction
Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.
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![A farmer holds a handful of biochar in his soot-covered hands.]()
![A farmer holds a handful of biochar in his soot-covered hands.]()
This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap
A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.
