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![The Phillips 66 oil refinery in Wilmington, California sends pollution into the air]()
![The Phillips 66 oil refinery in Wilmington, California sends pollution into the air]()
Oil refineries are polluting US waterways. Too often, it’s legal.
Facilities release a "witches' brew" of toxins in their wastewater.
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![Illustration of four hands piecing together a tree, like a puzzle]()
![Illustration of four hands piecing together a tree, like a puzzle]()
Tired of being told to ‘adapt,’ an Indigenous community wrote its own climate action plan
On the Flathead Reservation, a "living document" speaks to thousands of years of history while facing new challenges.
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![Illustration of a scale balancing two homes, one with smoke coming out of the chimney and the other with a heart]()
![Illustration of a scale balancing two homes, one with smoke coming out of the chimney and the other with a heart]()
Ann Arbor’s big decarbonization bet
The Michigan city has ambitions to go carbon neutral, and they begin in one of its most frontline neighborhoods.
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Can cities eliminate heat-related deaths in a warming world? Phoenix is trying.
Phoenix hopes a new Office of Heat Response can move fast enough to counter the impacts of deadly heat.
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![Illustration of sink water flowing through a pipe that leads to a flower waiting to be watered]()
![Illustration of sink water flowing through a pipe that leads to a flower waiting to be watered]()
A California town’s wastewater is helping it battle drought
Healdsburg recycles 350 million gallons of effluent annually and gives it away for free.
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![Illustration of hands holding up a blue electric bike]()
![Illustration of hands holding up a blue electric bike]()
How to build a better bike-share program
When corporate owners ditched New Orleans's bike share, the community stepped up to rebuild it with a focus on equity.
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![Photo of the Space Needle and downtown Seattle seen through industrial smokestacks.]()
![Photo of the Space Needle and downtown Seattle seen through industrial smokestacks.]()
Washington state just started capping carbon emissions. Here’s how it works.
The new system follows in California’s footsteps — except when it doesn’t.
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Dogs are sniffing out a legacy of pollution on the Blackfeet nation
Strange diseases are spreading in Blackfeet Country. Can canines track down the culprits?
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![Indigenous person wearing a face mask standing in a crowd, holding sign at a protest at the UN biodiversity conference]()
![Indigenous person wearing a face mask standing in a crowd, holding sign at a protest at the UN biodiversity conference]()
The world is struggling to figure out conservation. First Nations have some ideas.
Guardian programs offer one example of how governments can work with Indigenous peoples.
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Whales are an iconic symbol of conservation — and a natural climate solution
Protecting the big blue’s “ecosystem engineers” will yield benefits for the carbon cycle.
