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World must ‘restrain demand’ for plastic, OECD report says
Annual plastic production weighs as much as 45,500 Eiffel Towers.
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Dakota Access Pipeline operator loses legal battle
The announcement is a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, but DAPL remains operational.
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PR worked for Big Oil. So can it work for climate action?
The scholar Melissa Aronczyk sees dangers in borrowing from the PR playbook.
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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil
Can it work for PFAS-contaminated farms?
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Extreme Weather
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Cities’ biggest obstacle to flood-proofing isn’t money: It’s 50-year-old rainfall data.
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The world’s poorest bear the burden of heat — and it’s getting worse
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A wildfire may have forever changed this Colorado community — and who can afford to live there
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Historic flooding and a housing crisis left evicted Nooksack members with nowhere to go
Indigenous Affairs
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Wet’suwet’en land defenders call on United Nations to visit proposed pipeline
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The Biden administration is spending billions to clean up toxic abandoned coal mines
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Want to heal the planet? Stop ignoring Indigenous science.
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The boreal of Minnesota could look like Kansas if CO2 emissions remain ‘business as usual’
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How the Indigenous landback movement is poised to change conservation
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The future of farming? Think artificial intelligence, robots, and drones.
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Pop culture can no longer ignore our climate reality
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Climate change is stressful, scary, and sad. We’re gonna need therapy.
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What Biden's 'smart' border means for climate migration
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It’s not just climate: Are we ignoring other causes of disasters?
A growing number of scientists are cautioning that blaming disasters solely on climate overlooks the poor policy and planning decisions that make these events much worse.
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Utility monopolies are hurting rooftop solar. Can antitrust lawsuits rein them in?
A federal court found that an Arizona utility that crushed rooftop solar was not protected from antitrust laws.
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An ‘emerging crisis’: The climate is changing too fast for plants and animals to adapt
New UN report highlights how warming temperatures are upending nature's life cycles — with devastating impacts on agriculture and biodiversity.
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![The sky as seen from a room believed to serve as as a storeroom for merchants or other residents of the pre-Colombian settlement on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.]()
![The sky as seen from a room believed to serve as as a storeroom for merchants or other residents of the pre-Colombian settlement on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park.]()
In Chaco Canyon, a moratorium on oil and gas leases might be too little too late
Federal data reveal the plan does little to stop drilling and may push future development into Indigenous communities.
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The Biden administration is updating truck pollution standards
"We really should have been doing this yesterday"
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The campus divestment movement has a sophisticated new legal strategy
Students at five universities have launched a coordinated legal campaign against fossil fuel investments.
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The Midwest defined itself by its winters. What happens when they disappear?
For Midwesterners, winter has long been a point of pride. Now, climate change is playing havoc with traditions.
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