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Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color, EPA data shows
Postville, Iowa, has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer.
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What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland.
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores.
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![A group of people farm potatoes in a color illustration]()
The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that.
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The fate of thousands of US dams hangs in the balance, leaving rural communities with hard choices
Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
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![A man in a red sweater and glasses carries a Stop Lithium Mining sign which is also held by a woman in a pink shirt and skirt]()
Will exploratory lithium mining in Arizona continue near a sacred hot spring?
A judge will decide the fate of Ha’Kamwe’ as the Hualapai Nation fights the drilling in court.
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![A group of people stand with signs behind a March for Science banner on a street in DC]()
From the lab to the legislature: STEM professionals run for political office
More than 200 science, technology, engineering, and math professionals are candidates at the state and municipal level this year.
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![An illustration of a pink hand crushing an oil installation in the middle of the desert as water seeps underneath]()
In arid New Mexico, a debate over reusing oil-industry wastewater
The governor’s plan to use treated water from oil and gas drilling is in limbo while public safety questions swirl.
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The end of an era: Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down
The U.K.’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ended as turbines at the Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stopped for good.
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The Department of Energy promised this tribal nation a $32 million solar grant. It’s nearly impossible to access.
Washington’s Yakama Nation received both the grant and a $100 million federal loan. Held up by a series of bureaucratic hurdles, the funding could expire before the government lets the tribal nation touch a dime.
