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![A tractor in a dusty field]()
![A tractor in a dusty field]()
It’s not just the cities. Extreme heat is a growing threat to rural America.
The urban heat island sits in a rural heat ocean.
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![People dig a trench to replace lead pipes in front of a house]()
![People dig a trench to replace lead pipes in front of a house]()
Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades.
The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
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![A field of cut down trees extends toward the forest and mountains]()
![A field of cut down trees extends toward the forest and mountains]()
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Without U.S. funding, Indigenous communities in Peru and elsewhere face increasing threats to their land, livelihoods, and human rights.
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![An illustration of a truck peeping over an icy road at dawn]()
![An illustration of a truck peeping over an icy road at dawn]()
Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing.
Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help.
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![A desolate highway in Colorado, with transmission lines in the foreground and mountains in the background]()
![A desolate highway in Colorado, with transmission lines in the foreground and mountains in the background]()
Colorado’s rural electric co-ops are determined to go green
The federal government promised to pay for upgrades to keep utility rates down. Now what?
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![a row of trucks and warehouse within a short distance of a neighborhood]()
![a row of trucks and warehouse within a short distance of a neighborhood]()
El eslabón no regulado de una cadena de suministro tóxica
De El Paso, Texas, a Richmond, Virginia, los almacenes están liberando óxido de etileno, una sustancia química cancerígena. Casi nadie lo sabe.
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![An aerial view of a neighborhood right next to a facility warehouse with lots of trucks]()
![An aerial view of a neighborhood right next to a facility warehouse with lots of trucks]()
The unregulated link in a toxic supply chain
From El Paso, Texas, to Richmond, Virginia, warehouses are leaking ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Almost no one knows about them.
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![A sign that says Palisades Elementary School with a fire truck standing in the street next to it]()
![A sign that says Palisades Elementary School with a fire truck standing in the street next to it]()
After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned
The dispute between two Los Angeles-area districts raises a broader question of what a school district owes its neighbors after a major disaster.
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![Collage of Texas thornforest, white-tipped dove, and a man looking out at a field]()
![Collage of Texas thornforest, white-tipped dove, and a man looking out at a field]()
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
