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The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
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![Smoke and steam rise from the stacks at an industrial pulp mill alongside a river.]()
![Smoke and steam rise from the stacks at an industrial pulp mill alongside a river.]()
Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.
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![An aerial image of cattle at the southern border]()
![An aerial image of cattle at the southern border]()
Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
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![illustration of a white shrimp with black gill disease]()
![illustration of a white shrimp with black gill disease]()
Georgia’s beloved shrimp industry grapples with disease and foreign imports
Climate change is making things worse.
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![Close up photo of a black-legged tick]()
A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia
The tick that causes Lyme can also spread babesiosis — and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don't know about it.
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![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
![Two children and two adults in a recycling facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bags of shredded plastic fill the room, with some spilling their contents.]()
This commonly used plastic chemical caused 350,000 heart disease-related deaths in 1 year
People in Asia are exposed to levels up to six times higher than their counterparts in the West.
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![Two people participating in a rally for the Environmental Protection Agency.]()
![Two people participating in a rally for the Environmental Protection Agency.]()
30 years of environmental justice, dismantled in 100 days
Under the Trump administration, policies to protect the communities most affected by pollution are "illegal."
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![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
![Elementary school children in line at a cafeteria being served healthy lunches]()
Trump’s latest USDA cuts undermine his plan to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
The abrupt cancellation of a beloved farm-to-school grant program threatens food access, school gardens, and small farms nationwide.
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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.
