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![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money
The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.
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![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
![Collage of two people debating — one side blue-tinted and one side red-tinted with pieces of the photo missing]()
Why the US government is trying to revive the climate change ‘debate’
The Department of Energy is calling for "honest dialogue." It looks a lot like a playbook from the past.
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![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
![U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks at podium]()
Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA
As the Trump administration shrinks the Department of Agriculture, rural farming communities are left to pay the price.
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![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
![A white wind turbine stands in the middle of the ocean]()
Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm
Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague “national security” concerns.
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![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
![The Immigration and Custom Enforcement immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is seen in an aerial shot of the Everglades.]()
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ must close, but the fight isn’t over
A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed.
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![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
![Two white buildings tower in front of a blue sky and one reads FEMA]()
FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address
Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
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![A massive industrial plant stretches over black and gray dirt.]()
![A massive industrial plant stretches over black and gray dirt.]()
A coal-fired plant in Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day.
The community had big plans for the facility site, until the Trump administration ordered it to stay open, a move it extended this week.
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![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
![A man watches the Menomonee River flow under a bridge on August 10, 2025 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Heavy downpours brought as much as 13 inches of rain to parts of southeast Wisconsin overnight causing floods across the region.]()
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
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![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
![A boat of researchers on the sea in Antarctica surrounded by ice]()
Antarctica is in extreme peril
"Abrupt changes" threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, a new study finds.
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![Demonstrators chant as lawmakers are welcomed back ahead of a House meeting in the state Capitol in Austin, Texas.]()
![Demonstrators chant as lawmakers are welcomed back ahead of a House meeting in the state Capitol in Austin, Texas.]()
How Texas flood relief got caught in a high-stakes political battle
As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.
