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Report: Eliminating waste is a climate solution
Zero-waste practices like composting and production cuts could cut global waste emissions by 84 percent.
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![Wetlands in northern Idaho]()
What’s protected under the Clean Water Act? The Supreme Court is about to decide.
Sackett v. EPA could roll back protections for more than 50 percent of the nation’s wetlands.
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Unstable Ground
How thawing permafrost threatens a Biden-supported plan to drill in Alaska's Arctic.
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![A tractor sits in a field of green grass. it is dark outside and the sun is rising in the background.]()
![A tractor sits in a field of green grass. it is dark outside and the sun is rising in the background.]()
Will the Farm Bill be the next big climate package? It depends on the midterm elections.
Republicans have already vowed to strip climate funding from the bill.
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![Numerous recyclable plastic bottles arranged in a group.]()
‘We can’t recycle our way out’
From chemical recycling to plant-based alternatives, scientists size up the most promising solutions to plastic pollution.
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![A woman in a meadow looks upward with eyes closed and a peaceful expression]()
![A woman in a meadow looks upward with eyes closed and a peaceful expression]()
Chevron’s commercials just got the ‘Don’t Look Up’ treatment
What do cooing babies and frolicking elephants have to do with oil companies? Exactly.
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![An aerial picture shows flooding from Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.]()
![An aerial picture shows flooding from Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida.]()
Hurricane Ian was a powerful storm. Real estate developers made it a catastrophe.
'Dredge-and-fill' created thousands of homes vulnerable to storm surge.
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![Indigenous people stand over a candlelit memorial]()
![Indigenous people stand over a candlelit memorial]()
Every two days, a land defender is killed. Most are Indigenous.
A new report finds Indigenous people in Brazil, Colombia and the Philippines often face the highest rates of violence.
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EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs
The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them.
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![Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022.]()
![Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022.]()
Nord Stream gas leaks may be biggest ever, with warning of ‘large climate risk’
‘Colossal amount’ of leaked methane, twice initial estimates, is equivalent to third of Denmark’s annual CO2 emissions or 1.3 million cars.
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![Collage: a speech bubble with a photo of smokestacks and smoke against an orange sunny sky, and a speech bubble with the dictionary definition for the word]()
![Collage: a speech bubble with a photo of smokestacks and smoke against an orange sunny sky, and a speech bubble with the dictionary definition for the word]()
‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
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![An oil slick turns an ocean and beach brown]()
Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills
Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds.
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