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Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’
Climate change has made great swaths of the planet's land drier and saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access ...
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Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief
Church volunteers have played a big role in the wake of Hurricane Helene. But for some survivors, the accompanying proselytizing feels unwanted.
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Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change
The crowd sways like starlings in murmuration as we wait for the show to start. The relaxed vibe belies the pandamonium about ...
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How a fantasy oil train may help the Supreme Court gut a major environmental law
The proposed 88-mile rail line would link the oil fields of the remote Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to national rail lines so that up to 350,000 barrels of waxy crude oil could be transported to ...
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Biden administration warns natural gas expansion would drive up domestic costs
In January, Joe Biden paused the Department of Energy’s approvals of fossil gas exports to big consumers in Asia and Europe in order to conduct the review, in a move welcomed by climate ...
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In Florida, officials and communities clash over where to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator
When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could become the nation’s largest trash incinerator, so many people went to the government center to ...
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Wiped Off the Map
It was barely a choice. In 1855, a time when the ink of border lines on United States maps had scarcely dried, Yakama Chief Kamiakin was told to sign over the land of 14 tribal nations and bands ...
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Q&A: How the U.S.–China rivalry is holding back the world’s climate progress
In recent years, there has been a dramatic transformation in the economic philosophy guiding the world’s rich countries. After the supply chain shocks brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and the ...