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Over the last two decades, state regulators have allowed companies to release more than a billion pounds of excess pollution.
Cash-strapped farmers, gaps in the public safety net, and food inspection backlogs could reshape who eats what in the years to come.
The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.
This year’s wet winter helped save the river from collapse. But a reckoning is on the horizon.
How Harjeet Singh spends his days trying to influence the fight to save the planet — all while running on little more than a cheese sandwich.
That's because chemicals banned under the 1987 Montreal Protocol are also potent greenhouse gases.
As tracks heat up, they expand and buckle. That's forcing rail operators to adapt as the climate warms.
New research shows that every liter of bottled water contains 240,000 microscopic pieces of plastic.
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.
