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The summer games can't compete with rising temperatures. Here's what that means for the future of the Olympics.
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.
The White House's own environmental justice progress report gives little insight into the green benefits delivered to disadvantaged communities.
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.
Nitrogen dioxide levels near e-commerce warehouses are 20 percent higher than in other neighborhoods. It can even be measured from space.
A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.
In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in what’s already the nation’s largest residential lead Superfund site now may stall.
