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![A massive Category 5 hurricane is shown on a satellite image to move towards Florida.]()
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Major hurricanes expected to increase in 2023, researchers forecast
This hurricane season could be similar to 2017, the year of Harvey and Maria.
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Grist and the Center for Rural Strategies launch clearinghouse for rural US coverage
The Rural Newswire will provide stories available to any newsroom to republish and will provide $100,000 in reporting grants.
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![A fishing boat in silhouette heads up the Cape Fear River as sunse casts a golden glow over the water.]()
Is PFAS pollution a human rights violation? These activists say yes.
Activists in North Carolina allege that DuPont has for decades fouled Cape Fear River. They want the UN Human Rights Commission to hold it accountable.
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As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
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After a Houston-area chemical fire, toxic benzene lingered for weeks, endangering residents
Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
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How to blow up ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’
The new thriller takes a radical climate activist's argument into the mainstream — sort of.
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A record warm streak in the oceans has scientists worried
A budding El Niño and climate change likely play a role, experts say.
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The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis
A century-old miscalculation has California and Arizona fighting over water. Again.
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For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.
Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.
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The Supreme Court just unleashed a flood of lawsuits against Big Oil
Climate court cases are about to get a lot more interesting.
