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Illustration of a young man in a t-shirt and wool hat sitting on a rock overlooking a dirty, grey beach. He's distracted by a digital device, and digital projections of tropical palm trees appear over the dingy beach.

Sandbag Squidward

On a cold, damp beach in Louisiana, Henry Block is counting down the days until his Conservation Corps work ends and he can get back to building his digital world.

Ashlee Lhamon Climate Fiction March 12, 2026

An illustration of a woman in an hourglass looking outside at a stork carrying a bundle. Around them, a hurricane swirls.

Four lost pregnancies. Five weeks of IVF injections. One storm.

A couple spent years and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have a baby. Then Hurricane Ian hit.

Zoya Teirstein & Jessica Kutz, The 19th Health May 30, 2024

A mural depicting three coal miners is seen on the side of a building in rural West Virginia.

Joe Manchin could lose his pivotal Senate seat — to another coal baron

The race between Democrats’ swing vote and Governor Jim Justice is bringing West Virginia politics to the national stage.

Katie Myers Politics August 22, 2023

a woman in an orange shirt pushes a cart full of paper bags of trash through a town

How 2 communities, separated by an ocean, are working together to manage trash better

Grassroots groups in Manila and Detroit have teamed up in the fight against pollution.

Whitney Bauck International August 21, 2023

A lone, skinny pine tree sways on the banks of a stream in the middle of a prairie.

Fighting drought, potato farmers in northern Minnesota overdrew their water permits by tens of millions of gallons

The farmers likely face few consequences because of laws that one regulator says are inadequate.

Greg Stanley, Star Tribune Agriculture March 11, 2023

A wire fence outside of a house with clothes drying on top.

A community-led approach to prevent flooding expands in Illinois

In a region where communities of color are most impacted by flooding, RainReady is bringing together community members to create flood mitigation plans.

Maia McDonald & Katrina Pham, Borderless Extreme Weather August 20, 2023

Collage: an ear surrounded by vintage illustrations of a chickadee, a whippoorwill, a loon, a toad, and a humpback whale, music notes, sound waves, and cutout bars of marbled texture

How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

From warbling loons to chirping toads, rising temperatures threaten some of the Earth’s most iconic sounds.

Joseph Winters Culture August 3, 2022

What 5,000-year-old skeletons tell us about living with climate change

Collapse isn’t inevitable. New research shows that nimble, cooperative societies adapted best to rapid shifts.

Kate Yoder Health January 23, 2023

A bald man in a maroon sweatshirt examines dark-colored water in jars.

Black water: How industry is fighting stricter controls for a little-known drinking water contaminant

High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a battle with the EPA.

Natasha Gilbert Health August 29, 2023

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