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New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.
Federal programs are a lifeline for farmers. Now many are questioning whether they can stay in business.
Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.
As climate change makes summers hotter, restaurant employees are walking out and unionizing.
Indigenous peoples raise the alarm as Pentagon spending on lithium, graphite, and other minerals skyrockets.
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.
Lawmakers wanted to lead the energy transition, but Governor Kathy Hochul is worried about the cost of ditching natural gas.
Federal investigators found that Alabama neglected a Black community's sewage and sanitation needs — then punished them for the results.