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Drought can stress trees to death, but heat’s effects are less known. New research could hold the keys to protecting conifer forests.
The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.
Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28.
As renewables overtook coal, economic growth outpaced the rise in carbon emissions.
Miners and their advocates have long demanded stricter standards on exposure to silica, a leading cause of an epidemic of black lung. They’re still waiting.
Health experts say it doesn’t go far enough to limit the deadly pollutant.
For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro, and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.
Everything you need to know about the science linking global warming to extreme heat.
$10 for 3.2 billion gallons of water? A loophole in Utah law could enable the country’s first commercial oil mining operation.
