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Sierra Club honors environmental justice. Who’s next?
The club's new award is named after environmental justice pioneer Robert Bullard. Nice move. Here are some ideas for other green groups.
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Watch drought take over the entire state of California in one GIF
California, the producer of half of the nation's fruits, veggies, and nuts, is experiencing its third-worst drought on record.
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The U.S. cities with the worst climate change-related flooding
Rising sea levels have kicked up flood days by as much as 900 percent along parts of the East Coast.
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This huge corporation is tackling climate change — because it’s a threat to the bottom line
Food giant General Mills now has some pretty sweet climate bragging rights.
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When a species poisons an entire planet
We aren't the only creatures who polluted the atmosphere and forever changed life on Earth.
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Appalachia tries to make a life after coal
Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia -- having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth.
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You’d scream, too, if you were this close to a collapsing iceberg
As the poles melt, icebergs are breaking off and drifting with greater ease, creating a world of problems for humans and animals alike.
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Dead elephants, plagues, and rats: Why the sixth extinction is bad for you and everyone you know
Our little habit of wiping out wildlife is going to come back and bite us.
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Be a patriot, eat less beef
This is your favorite protein's carbon footprint.
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Northwest wildfires: We broke the forests, now we need to fix them
Decades of logging, fire suppression, and now climate change have turned our forests into firestorms. But the war on wildfire is one we just can't win.