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The US and Canada have long managed the Great Lakes together. That era could be ending.
Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth.
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![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
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Environmentalists in Israel and Palestine fight to save cross-border water resources
"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water."
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Why a tree-planting nonprofit in Chicago is suing the Trump administration
Similar programs across the country are also struggling.
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Efforts were underway to prevent CO2 pipeline leaks. The Trump administration quietly derailed them.
The proposed safety rules would have been the first.
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Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit
A new study shows that exposure to high temperatures adds up to 14 months to older adults' cellular age.
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As climate change supercharges disease, Trump pulls US from World Health Organization
The move, and a temporary gag order on public health agencies, puts the country in a dangerous position.
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![Black smoke fills the sky over a neighborhood burning in Los Angeles.]()
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Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA’s is even worse.
Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."
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Climate change threatens the mental well-being of youths. Here’s how to help them cope.
A 2022 poll of 1,500 U.S. teenagers found that 89 percent of them regularly think about the environment, “with the majority feeling more worried than hopeful.”
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In Florida, officials and communities clash over where to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator
Residents argue the project will disproportionately impact majority-Black and -Hispanic communities in the Miami-Dade area.
