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Mexico is offering water to South Texas. But there’s a catch farmers aren’t happy about.
Farmers say they want the water, but not if it goes against the allotment they need for the spring planting season.
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Here are the 5 issues to watch at COP29
With U.S. climate commitments in question, the United Nations is forging ahead at this year’s COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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These downballot elections may slow the shift to clean energy
Republicans won, or are leading, in closely watched utility commission races in Arizona, Montana, and Louisiana.
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The 5 states where environmental ballot initiatives triumphed
Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.
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Tribes help tribes after natural disasters. Helene is no different.
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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Wildfires are coming to the Southeast. Can landowners mitigate the risk in time?
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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An attempt to repeal Washington’s landmark climate law failed massively
"Every state legislator can now look to Washington and say, ‘This is a winning issue,’” Governor Jay Inslee said. “This is something you can defend and win big on."
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The massive consequences Trump’s reelection could have on climate change
With control of the White House and the Senate, Republicans are poised to upend U.S. climate policy.
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How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone.
Research shows that, instead of replanting rainforests, allowing them to bounce back naturally would store loads of carbon.
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What Election Day looked like for voters in hurricane-battered communities across Florida and North Carolina
Voters showed up in droves to cast their ballots, navigating last-minute polling changes spurred by hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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A stormy Election Day in southwest Louisiana
In Lake Charles, voters spoke about how past hurricanes have influenced their politics
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Election Day in the disaster zone
Hello, and welcome to our special Election Day edition of State of Emergency. I’m Zoya Teirstein, and today I’m reporting from rainy Buncombe County, North Carolina. I spent the morning talking to voters at the Fairview Public Library — one of 17 temporary polling sites in the county established after Hurricane Helene caused widespread damage […]
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This California congressman is betting the farm on water
Republican David Valadao has held down his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. But with control of Congress on the line, his luck may be running out.
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A Q&A with Indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo, who fought oil drilling in the Amazon — and won
Her new book chronicles her life: "The story dies when no one tells it."
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