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States want transparent laws around animal agriculture. A fight in Congress could derail that.
The Save Our Bacon bill would make it harder for consumers to know how their meat was raised.
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Ask a Climate Therapist: How do I avoid getting trapped in the system I hope to change?
A young engineer has a vision for changing their industry, but worries about slowly becoming a cog in the machine. Therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice for staying creative.
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![An air monitor attached to a light pole]()
![An air monitor attached to a light pole]()
After a civil rights complaint, Chicago built the nation’s largest air monitoring network
As extreme heat reshapes air quality, the network of 277 monitors is expected to help identify localized pollution hot spots.
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![Looking out over the expansive blue lake waters to the largest island on Lake Michigan, Beaver Island.]()
![Looking out over the expansive blue lake waters to the largest island on Lake Michigan, Beaver Island.]()
This island in the Great Lakes wants to tap waves for energy
Hydrokinetic energy from the waves surrounding Beaver Island could improve electricity reliability and push an emerging technology forward.
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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
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First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
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![A dirt road leads toward a forested hill, where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is visible.]()
Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas
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A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
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Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure
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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, report finds
Indigenous lands are recognized as crucial for climate mitigation and resilience. New research shows their health is a direct result of the people who inhabit and steward them.
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The hidden toll of wood pellet power
Though marketed as clean energy, industrial pellet plants are driving deforestation, worsening floods, and polluting rural counties.
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![Lake Powell is shown surrounded by the rugged terrain of Utah.]()
![Lake Powell is shown surrounded by the rugged terrain of Utah.]()
The Colorado River is vanishing — and the fixes are getting weird
Desalination. Pipelines. Cloud seeding. Those are just a few ideas for how the Trump administration should save the desiccated waterway.
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![a large yellow instrument the size of a car goes into the ocean off of the side of a ship with crew in orange vests surrounding it]()
![a large yellow instrument the size of a car goes into the ocean off of the side of a ship with crew in orange vests surrounding it]()
Outrage rescued an important ocean research program. Crucial ones remain at risk.
Senators saved a network of ocean sensors from "supreme stupidity." But other cutting-edge efforts are running out of funding, too.
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline
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This enzyme is responsible for life on Earth. It’s a hot mess.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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![illustration of a green snake coiled around a bottle of antivenom, with leaves creating a frame around the edges]()
![illustration of a green snake coiled around a bottle of antivenom, with leaves creating a frame around the edges]()
As the world warms, the risk of snakebites is rising
Millions of people are bitten by snakes every year. Climate change is increasing human-snake encounters, even as many countries remain ill-equipped to treat victims.
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America’s data center backlash is bipartisan — can it stay that way?
As opposition mounts, some experts wonder how long AI infrastructure can steer clear of the partisanship that defines U.S. politics.
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![A strip of marshland surrounded by water]()
Nearly 1.5M people in Louisiana depend on this strip of marsh. But it needs saving.
Like much of Louisiana’s coast, the New Orleans Land Bridge is disappearing at a rapid rate.
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![man holding a sign that reads President Trump make commercial fishing great again]()
![man holding a sign that reads President Trump make commercial fishing great again]()
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing?
As the administration dismantles guardrails for industrial fishing, it's also threatening critical marine ecosystems that are sacred to Indigenous Pacific peoples.
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