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![Photo of the outside of a flooded elementary school with school buses partially submerged]()
![Photo of the outside of a flooded elementary school with school buses partially submerged]()
What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety.
Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help.
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![A group of protestors in front of snowy mountains hold up a sign reading YELLOWSTONE IS NOT FOR SALE]()
![A group of protestors in front of snowy mountains hold up a sign reading YELLOWSTONE IS NOT FOR SALE]()
Yellowstone’s gateway town fears for its future amid Trump funding cuts
“Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.”
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Renewables surged in 2024 — but so did fossil fuels
A new report finds that while electricity demand skyrocketed, the deployment of new wind, solar, and nuclear power did, too.
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![A pile of electronics in a warehouse with a sign indoors that says 'redwood materials']()
![A pile of electronics in a warehouse with a sign indoors that says 'redwood materials']()
Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that.
Recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China.
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![A geologic map of Arizona's castle rock quadrangle]()
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Why Biden and Trump both support this federal mineral mapping project
A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.
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![A row of test tubes with snippets of seaweed inside]()
The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
Not all critical minerals need to come from digging up the earth.
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline
Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising — but challenging — source of minerals: seawater.
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![View of an estuary going through Gaza.]()
![View of an estuary going through Gaza.]()
Environmentalists in Israel and Palestine fight to save cross-border water resources
"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water."
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![Three young men planting a tree into the ground.]()
![Three young men planting a tree into the ground.]()
Why a tree-planting nonprofit in Chicago is suing the Trump administration
Similar programs across the country are also struggling.
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Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
The methane fee would have had the same impact as taking 8 million gas-powered cars off the road.
