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Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.
Sea ice extent in the Arctic has decreased by about 40 percent since 1979. New technologies are being deployed to regrow it.
Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.
Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.
A new study finds that the country's 28 most populous metros are losing elevation, from New York City to Seattle.
Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry the state will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.
All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.
The Mojave Desert species is thriving at a solar farm near Las Vegas, perhaps because the panels slow evaporation.
It’s not clear who will now write the Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment — or whether it will be written at all.
