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Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
The key to lowering your microfiber footprint: wash your clothes on cold.
"If all states and territories chose to utilize this program during COVID it would be at a scale never done before.”
The legacy of race-based housing rules continues to shape the landscape of big cities.
Environmental groups fear low crude prices could cause a spike in abandoned oil wells.
Alpine resorts get creative to combat rising temperatures.
Mississippi sued Memphis over its use of a deep aquifer. A possibly paradigm-shifting Supreme Court decision looms.
How the climate movement came of age under Trump.
For unavoidable plastic waste, there are no good options.