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The surprising "win-win" for farmers and fire departments.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.
Disasters are big business. These charts show just how big.
Indigenous leaders warn the U.N. that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data centers threatens their rights.
As President Trump pushes seabed mining, the bid by an American startup reveals the limits of island nations' control over their neighboring waters.
As extreme heat reshapes air quality, the network of 277 monitors is expected to help identify localized pollution hot spots.
A new project in California’s oil country could dodge national controversies over energy and water usage.
A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke.