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![Black smoke fills the sky over a neighborhood burning in Los Angeles.]()
![Black smoke fills the sky over a neighborhood burning in Los Angeles.]()
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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![A teenage girl in a red tee shirt and jeans sits pensively on a bed]()
![A teenage girl in a red tee shirt and jeans sits pensively on a bed]()
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.
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![A woman wearing a blazer stands next to a water well with a farmhouse in the background]()
![A woman wearing a blazer stands next to a water well with a farmhouse in the background]()
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ taint rural California drinking water, far from known sources
PFAS chemicals have unexpectedly turned up in well water in rural farmland, far from any industrial areas, airports, or military bases.
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![signs that say 'say no to biochar' and 'not moreau' on a lawn. The biochar sign has a poop emoji drawn on it]()
![signs that say 'say no to biochar' and 'not moreau' on a lawn. The biochar sign has a poop emoji drawn on it]()
This New York town doesn’t want to be a climate experiment
A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.
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![Bottled water and a toilet paper roll sit on a small box near a house]()
![Bottled water and a toilet paper roll sit on a small box near a house]()
Some towns still don’t have drinkable water months after Hurricane Helene. A full recovery could take years.
The flooding that devastated western North Carolina during Hurricane Helene knocked out dozens of rural water systems.
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![A multistory commercial building that says ADM]()
![A multistory commercial building that says ADM]()
The nation’s first commercial carbon sequestration plant is in Illinois. It leaks.
The locals are worried: “Just because CO2 sequestration can be done doesn't mean it should be done."
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As Helene’s immediate impacts recede, a public health threat rises
A shortage of potable water and the toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants the flood left behind has prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina.
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Is climate anxiety a pressing problem, or a luxury?
Concerns about our future are valid — but they aren't always shared by those who are fighting to survive in the present.
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![Collage of three images — trucks spraying for mosquitos, micrograph of the pituitary gland, and an adult mosquito]()
![Collage of three images — trucks spraying for mosquitos, micrograph of the pituitary gland, and an adult mosquito]()
As climate change helps mosquitoes spread disease, critics push for alternatives to pesticides
In response to outbreaks of West Nile virus and EEE, cities spray chemicals to kill mosquitoes. Is there a better way?
