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The surprising "win-win" for farmers and fire departments.
Across the country, voters approved spending billions of dollars on climate resilience and conservation.
A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.
In a provocative new book, Genevieve Guenther argues that too many conversations are happening on the fossil fuel industry's terms.
Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life.
Similar programs across the country are also struggling.
Rents jumped 20 percent after this year’s Los Angeles wildfires, forcing displaced residents to scramble for housing in an already-tough market.
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from President Trump's executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation.
A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke.