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As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
How the necessary work of cleaning up can make an even bigger mess.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.
Modern-day colonialism is enabling Trump's deep-sea mining ambitions in the Pacific.