The uncertain future of the UN’s leading voice on Indigenous rights
Last week, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues released urgent calls to action, including a pause on fas...
These Wyoming oil tycoons are reviving the Keystone pipeline
On the first day of his presidency back in 2021, Joe Biden revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, whic...
Cities are rehearsing for deadly heat. Will it help when disaster comes?
On a sunny Friday afternoon in October 2023, some 70 children filed into a cool, dark tunnel in the south of Paris...
American homes need heat pumps, not space heaters
If you want to ditch your gas furnace and heat your home more cleanly and efficiently, you need to scale up one of...
Should Roundup labels warn users about the cancer risk? It’s up to the Supreme Court.
Since 2018, when it bought the chemical manufacturer Monsanto, the German conglomerate Bayer has set aside billion...
Helene frayed the safety net for people who use drugs. This community wove it back together.
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California will soon have more than 300 data centers. Where will they get their water?
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The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s ecosystems
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Can a carbon price lower power bills? Virginia is betting yes.
Abigail Spanberger won a landslide victory in the Virginia governor’s race last November with a platform that focu...
While Zach Galifianakis finds peace in gardening, I’m at war with raccoons
I caught a raccoon almost literally red-handed the other day. The night before, it (and presumably the comrades in...