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![A row of yellow school buses drive down a street with exhaust coming from one of them.]()
![A row of yellow school buses drive down a street with exhaust coming from one of them.]()
How much would US air quality improve if it shifted to EVs?
Air pollution will plummet as EVs and renewables are adopted, showcasing the public-health benefits of moving away from fossil fuels.
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![A man unrolls a rope attached to a metal cylinder in the ground.]()
![A man unrolls a rope attached to a metal cylinder in the ground.]()
Texas farmers are worried one of the state’s most precious water resources is running dry. You should be, too.
The Ogallala Aquifer serves farming communities in multiple states. When it runs dry, the agriculture industry in Texas and the nation is in jeopardy.
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![A woman with a large necklace and head wrap stands with her hands on her hips in front of a house.]()
![A woman with a large necklace and head wrap stands with her hands on her hips in front of a house.]()
When the water isn’t safe to drink
In Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas, Black communities are fighting for their right to access clean water.
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![A view of a muddy sandbank with a tanker on a river in the background.]()
The climate crisis is on track to push one-third of humanity out of its most livable environment
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
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![An aerial view of the earth and the clouds covering it.]()
The upper atmosphere is cooling, prompting new climate concerns
A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.
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![A group of people chat in a greenhouse filled with plants.]()
![A group of people chat in a greenhouse filled with plants.]()
The former dumping ground that became a flourishing food ecosystem
Cleveland's Rid-All Green Partnership began small in 2011, and it now supports a community kitchen and farmer's market with acres of farmland.
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![A teenager in a black tee-shirt with long hair stands in a field at sunset.]()
![A teenager in a black tee-shirt with long hair stands in a field at sunset.]()
Who is ‘Held’ of Held v. State of Montana?
Early exposure to scientific rigor and climate change’s impact on ranches led Rikki Held to confer her name to the nation’s first constitutional climate change lawsuit to reach trial.
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Does the Mississippi River have rights?
Black and indigenous organizers from across the Mississippi River basin called to grant the river legal standing at a summit in late May. It's part of a nascent movement that has won success abroad and is picking up steam in the U.S.
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![A field of black solar panels stretches to the edge of a forest.]()
![A field of black solar panels stretches to the edge of a forest.]()
Rural electricity is getting its biggest boost since FDR — here’s how
The Inflation Reduction Act earmarked $10.7 billion to make rural energy cleaner and more affordable. Now there are details on how exactly the program will work.
