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Data centers are straining the grid. Can they be forced to pay for it?

As backlash grows, a nationwide search is underway for solutions to the AI energy crunch.

Naveena Sadasivam Accountability April 6, 2026

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, DC.

Despite court order, a critical FEMA program remains frozen

Months after a judge ordered the Trump administration to restore climate adaptation grants, FEMA insiders say the agency hasn’t budged.

Jake Bittle Politics February 17, 2026

Digital collage of man spray painting the name Katrina on a board with previous hurricane names crossed out alongside a photo of storm clouds and palm trees blowing in wind

Who’s afraid of Hurricane Debby? The peculiar importance of a storm’s name.

Giving hurricanes people's names has resulted in some weird side effects.

Kate Yoder Language June 4, 2024

Climate change primed LA to burn — catastrophically

A new analysis finds that human-caused warming helped dry out the vegetation that turned Los Angeles into a firestorm.

Matt Simon Wildfires January 28, 2025

close-up of a student holding a carton of milk

Whole, skim, or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches.

Offering kids nondairy milk could be a climate solution. No one's talking about it that way.

Frida Garza Food and Agriculture April 18, 2025

Farmers plant rice seedlings by hand in the terraced paddy fields

The ‘king of poisons’ is building up in rice

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.

Ayurella Horn-Muller Food and Agriculture April 17, 2025

Front of the National Gallery of Art with sign that it is closed due to federal shutdown.

How government shutdowns give polluters a free pass

Though the current political showdown is nearing an end, new research shows that government shutdowns leave polluting legacies.

Naveena Sadasivam Politics November 10, 2025

Satellite image of the Great Lakes, covered in snow and ice

What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.

Vivian La Science February 8, 2026

Black smoke billows across the sky as a chemical storage site burns in a fire.

Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions

Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now?

Tristan Baurick Energy June 16, 2025

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