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2020 Democrats are still unclear on how to stop the next Flint water crisis

Few, if any, of the 20 presidential hopefuls at the Detroit debates offered a clear vision of how to guarantee the water flowing from the nation’s aging pipes won’t make them sick, damage their children’s brains, and remain accessible as freshwater reserves dry up.

Alexander C. Kaufman Politics

Arctic wildfires are releasing as much carbon as Belgium did last year

Here’s why the epic burn, ranging from Alaska to Siberia, matters.

Maddie Stone Climate & Energy

A scrappy solution to the fashion industry’s giant waste problem

Commercial textile waste is a much bigger problem than consumer kondo-ing.

Justine Calma Culture

How can I get a job that fights climate change?

Everything might seem terrible, but there's never been a better market for a climate-related job!

Zoe Sayler Ask Umbra

Nearly 100 percent of Trump funds designed to help farmers went to white farmers

A new report reveals race and income disparities in regards to a program designed to protect growers from Trump’s trade war with China.

Paola Rosa-Aquino Equity

In Detroit, Democratic candidates actually did some climate debating

It wasn't a climate debate, but candidates' discussion of how to combat warming is evolving.

Molly Enking & Zoya Teirstein Politics

See the crazy visuals coming out of Greenland’s heat wave right now

Greenland’s unprecedented melting is the climate crisis in action

Molly Enking Science

Marianne Williamson brought climate justice to the Democratic debate

Unlikely to win the Democratic nomination, the spiritual healer is surfacing important issues her party needs to grapple with.

Zoya Teirstein Politics

The deadliest environmental causes in 2018: Protesting mining, agribusiness, dams

At least 164 environmental activists were killed last year, according to a new report.

Justine Calma Equity

What to expect from the candidates on climate change during the Detroit debates

Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are jockeying for a slice of the climate action pie.