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As the planet warms, laborers need special clothes to cope. But they also need government protections.
New research links more than 150,000 infant deaths to 30 monsoons in the South Asian country.
Trump can't stop talking about a law that never passed. Should activists pick a new demand?
Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.
The grisly scenes are easy to understand "in the age of global warming," Hawaiʻi’s governor said.
The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town."
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
Parter Medical Products was fined more than $800,000 for exposing its workers to dangerously high levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide.