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They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.
Jennifer and Dean Bye were just getting by before Hurricane Ida slammed into southern Louisiana in 2021. The couple own a house in a comfortable subdivision in Paulina, a town […]
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5 things to know about the fungal infection valley fever
What is valley fever and how does it spread? Valley fever is an infection spread by a fungus that grows in the top few inches of soil in parts of […]
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How climate change is intensifying hurricanes
Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before. Decades of scientific research […]
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Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.
Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?
In the first six months of the second Trump administration, some 60,000 federal workers have been targeted for layoffs, even more have taken buyouts, and up to trillions of dollars […]
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The guerrilla campaign to save a Texas prairie from ‘silent extinction’
“This is a war between us and the developers, and nobody’s calling uncle or throwing up white flags.”
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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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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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Disaster recovery is not a simple process. It takes months, even years, for communities to distribute aid, rebuild, and begin to move forward. Your landscape and community has likely changed […]
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Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
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![Ukrainian rescuers of the State Emergency Service and firefighters continue to extinguish the forest fire after a Russian bomb explosion in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on September 17, 2024.]()
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As war rages on, Ukraine’s forests are ablaze
Since Russia’s invasion of the country in 2022, nearly 5 million acres have burned, incited by rocket fire, artillery shelling, and explosive devices.
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