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Nearly $1B in federal funding could help clean up the unequal health impacts of diesel pollution.
The unseasonal heat in Brazil is bad news for the world's supply of coffee and soybeans.
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.
A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
The powerful storm caught many people off guard as it drove through six states. As devastating as it was, did Helene truly change anything?
Washington’s Yakama Nation received both the grant and a $100 million federal loan. Held up by a series of bureaucratic hurdles, the funding could expire before the government lets the tribal nation touch a dime.
There’s no solid evidence that framing the global problem as a local one prompts people to act. So what does?
The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.
