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University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.
Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.
Federal programs are a lifeline for farmers. Now many are questioning whether they can stay in business.
Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.
Indigenous peoples raise the alarm as Pentagon spending on lithium, graphite, and other minerals skyrockets.
As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.
