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As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
Mining waste would have jeopardized the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The Agriculture Department just restored the so-called Roadless Rule, but federal land swaps could still open forest lands to logging.
As a warming world creates an existential threat for the ski industry, resorts are reducing how much energy they need to make it snow.
A court in Australia recommended against approving a massive coal mine proposed by a company owned by billionaire Clive Palmer, arguing that the project would exacerbate climate change and jeopardize human rights.
Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies.
Solar advocates in southwestern Virginia say being local, proving the technology works, and building a coalition to support it have been key to their success.
Giving workers more of a chance and a choice when extreme weather hits.
Jacksonville residents and local grassroots organizations are working with city officials to take a markedly different approach to managing flood risks.
