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All 10 of the country’s most at-risk counties are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.
Residents are trying to connect the dots between hurricanes, high radium levels, and a mineral mining giant next door.
Republican David Valadao has held down his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. But with control of Congress on the line, his luck may be running out.
Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.
As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
We're losing vital agricultural land. But is solar the main culprit?
From winter wildfires in Los Angeles to the unchecked growth of data centers, here are the big climate stories we covered in 2025.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
