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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation toward health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
Climate change's latest mystery came from Greenland's melting ice sheet.
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
Trump promised boom times for the U.S. oil industry. They're laying off staff and reducing spending instead.
The unprecedented deal the Shoshone-Paiute struck with a Canadian gold company will test whether mining can align with Indigenous rights.
