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Despite health risks, Puerto Rico keeps tax incentives in place for cancer-causing chemical polluters.
The unseasonal heat in Brazil is bad news for the world's supply of coffee and soybeans.
As heavy rains overwhelm aging pipes, Boston and NYC are choosing very different paths forward.
Alachua County is preparing for a more dangerous future, even if the state government won't say "climate."
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.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.