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![This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.]()
![This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga.]()
In Georgia, Trump’s immigration agenda and clean energy jobs are colliding
Expert foreign workers are key to setting up new factories in the U.S. An ICE raid targeting them could hurt efforts to ramp up American manufacturing.
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A fiber optic cable spied on Greenland’s glaciers. It found an alarming problem.
By analyzing light shining through the same kind of cable that brings the internet into homes, researchers have helped explain why the island's ice — which could add 23 feet to sea levels — is in such rapid decline.
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![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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![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
![President Trump sits at a table holding up a signed executive order while cabinet members look on. Behind them is a gold curtain.]()
Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them
Federal laws meant to protect land and wildlife are being misused to curb wind and solar development across the U.S.
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![A birds-eye view of a crowded crosswalk in New York City.]()
Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault.
Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes.
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The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way
Scientists are exploring whether encouraging the growth of phytoplankton could draw down more atmospheric carbon — without unintended side effects in oceanic ecosystems.
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Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
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![A lone human figure walks on melting ice in the Arctic]()
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet
Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent protection.
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The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules
A mass of dangerous heat and humidity is spreading across the US. What exactly is it?
