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As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
A court in Australia recommended against approving a massive coal mine proposed by a company owned by billionaire Clive Palmer, arguing that the project would exacerbate climate change and jeopardize human rights.
Here’s what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas.
Anemones, sponges, and jellyfish are bleaching throughout the Everglades amid record temperatures. It's a troubling sign for Florida Bay and beyond.
World leaders have two weeks to decide the fate of the planet. How hard could it be?