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Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.
Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution.
As the planet traps more energy than it releases, the pathways for global food production are being upended.
A new analysis finds that human-caused warming helped dry out the vegetation that turned Los Angeles into a firestorm.
When the maritime sector slashed sulfur emissions, it became an accidental experiment in geoengineering.
As the federal government pushes more disaster recovery responsibilities onto states, they are “sitting ducks” for contractors.
A U.S. renewable diesel refiner purchased tallow from slaughterhouses supplied by ranches fined for illegal clearing of Brazilian forests.
Headlines say the dirtiest fossil fuel is “back in fashion” — but there's much more to the story.
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.