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As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation toward health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
Climate change's latest mystery came from Greenland's melting ice sheet.
Many chefs are asking what a future without gas will mean for culinary traditions like wok cooking.
Trump promised boom times for the U.S. oil industry. They're laying off staff and reducing spending instead.
The unprecedented deal the Shoshone-Paiute struck with a Canadian gold company will test whether mining can align with Indigenous rights.
