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Green science’s white people problem
The environmental sciences lack diversity — and that leaves holes in our understanding of health.
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Closed-door policies imperil climate migrants
Climate change combined with rollbacks to immigration-relief programs, like temporary protected status, is a recipe for humanitarian crisis.
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A zombie garbage incinerator divides a working-class town in Massachusetts.
For two decades, residents in Revere, Massachusetts, have seemingly had to choose between jobs and their health.
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Vive la résistance: 10 ways people stood up for the planet in 2017
Fighting pipeline construction, reaffirming commitments to the Paris accord, and suing the EPA were among many acts of defiance.
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How New York City is tackling a mental health crisis spurred by Hurricane Sandy
Years after the storm pummeled the coast of Queens, psychiatric hospitalizations in the area are soaring.
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Puerto Rico’s mental health crisis is an American disaster
Watch our video on the connection between big storms and mental health.
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Miles away from the U.N. climate talks, local movements demonstrate what’s really at stake
Activists accuse the conference of 'greenwashing' environmental injustices just outside its doors.
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Washington state gets another shot at the nation’s first carbon tax
“2018 is the year we’re going to push for something big in Washington.”
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Fiji leads U.N. climate talks that warming kept it from hosting
Though COP23 is in Germany, the island chain -- one of the countries with the most at stake -- is leading its agenda.
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Climate change–fueled wildfires pollute the air and make people sick
The West's big wildfires are undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.
