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Hawaii to US Navy: Quit polluting our waters
A $9 million fine and a sewage leak into Pearl Harbor are just the latest in a series of water crises.
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How California’s Salton Sea went from vacation destination to toxic nightmare
And why the shrinking lake might be key to meeting America's clean energy goals.
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Unstable Ground
How thawing permafrost threatens a Biden-supported plan to drill in Alaska's Arctic.
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EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs
The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.
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‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
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The rebirth of Hiware Bazar
How a drought-stricken community in India became a “village of millionaires”
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How to keep older adults safer during heat waves? Give them housemates.
In France, a deadly heat wave gave rise to an intergenerational housing movement.
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![Collage: an electric car hooked up to a charging station, mountains, a silhouette of North Carolina, a chunk of lithium ore, and a sign with the words]()
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The electric vehicle boom could bring lithium mines back to North Carolina
Not all locals are happy about it.
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![Collage: Indigenous woman with a lake and trees behind her; a cloud of smoke and a pink sun hover over her head; a sign for Mille Lacs Reservation in the foreground]()
![Collage: Indigenous woman with a lake and trees behind her; a cloud of smoke and a pink sun hover over her head; a sign for Mille Lacs Reservation in the foreground]()
Wildfire smoke is choking Indigenous communities
With government monitoring lagging behind, members are installing their own monitors.
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A new low-tech technique can take the ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals
The toxic pollutants, also known as PFAS, are everywhere on the planet.
