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The study finds that, despite their cost and other drawbacks, such programs can help small cities reach their climate goals.
Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
The answer: try at least $500 million.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
Unseasonably early blooms can wreak havoc on allergies, disease vectors, and agriculture.
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
How the necessary work of cleaning up can make an even bigger mess.
Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals.
In an unusual move, opponents of the rule have asked the highest court to pause the rule even as dozens of lawsuits in lower courts remain undecided.