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![Black woman with long dark hair in a magenta coat speaks into television microphones at a press conference. She is surrounded by other people of differing races.]()
![Black woman with long dark hair in a magenta coat speaks into television microphones at a press conference. She is surrounded by other people of differing races.]()
Chicago teachers demand climate solutions in their next contract
"That contract means nothing if our Earth is on fire."
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![A black and white photo of two women posed looking to the side and forward in front of a patterned curtain]()
![A black and white photo of two women posed looking to the side and forward in front of a patterned curtain]()
What is LaToya Ruby Frazier trying to show us?
The photographer’s fight against environmental injustice and historical erasure, one frame at a time.
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![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
![Cars get stuck in a traffic jam on a Brooklyn highway as they head toward Manhattan. New York's governor Kathy Hochul scrapped a program to charge drivers a fee for entering downtown Manhattan.]()
Caving on climate: Kathy Hochul axes congestion pricing in New York
The state’s Democratic governor is sacrificing a landmark climate policy to score political points.
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![A resident of the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City rests after receiving drinking water. Many residents of the city have been affected by the contamination of groundwater wells amid a severe drought.]()
![A resident of the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City rests after receiving drinking water. Many residents of the city have been affected by the contamination of groundwater wells amid a severe drought.]()
As reservoirs go dry, Mexico City and Bogotá are staring down ‘Day Zero’
Cape Town, which beat a water crisis in 2018, holds lessons for cities grappling with an El Niño-fueled drought.
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![A flooded home in the River Plantation neighborhood of Conroe, Texas on May 3, 2024. A series of storms dropped 23 inches of rain on parts of southeast Texas.]()
![A flooded home in the River Plantation neighborhood of Conroe, Texas on May 3, 2024. A series of storms dropped 23 inches of rain on parts of southeast Texas.]()
Texas flooding brings new urgency to Houston home buyout program
The San Jacinto River is a national hotspot for ‘managed retreat,’ but recent floods show how far local officials still have to go.
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![Cars sit in bumper to bumper traffic on a highway.]()
![Cars sit in bumper to bumper traffic on a highway.]()
A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it
Construction of the pilot project on U.S. Highway 52 began this month. State officials hope it can help quell range anxiety and electrify long-haul trucks.
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![A collage of several photos of trees, with the center image of a tree highlighted with yellow rectangles on the crown, denoting rot or dying leaves]()
![A collage of several photos of trees, with the center image of a tree highlighted with yellow rectangles on the crown, denoting rot or dying leaves]()
As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
“Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
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![cars and trucks in traffic jam in urban setting]()
![cars and trucks in traffic jam in urban setting]()
Monitoring a ‘sea of trucks’ in Chicago
Activists found more than 5,000 trucks and buses passing through a single neighborhood in a day.
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![Tourists visiting San Francisco ride their rented Scoot electric scooters down Market Street.]()
![Tourists visiting San Francisco ride their rented Scoot electric scooters down Market Street.]()
8 years into America’s e-scooter experiment, what have we learned?
The climate benefits of shared e-scooters depend upon how companies deploy and manage them, and what steps are taken to keep riders safe.
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![An orange train rolls on a track in a dense city.]()
![An orange train rolls on a track in a dense city.]()
Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast. Yours could be next.
Subsidence is causing parts of Mexico City to sink, and it’s happening at an uneven rate. That’s bad news for its sprawling public transportation system.
