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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
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Controlled burns can provide years of protection against wildfires, new study shows
New research finds that "beneficial" fires can cut the risk of high intensity blazes by 64 percent.
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What Canada’s most expensive disaster ever teaches us about climate change
The author of "Fire Weather," a National Book Award finalist, on the unimaginable reality of disaster.
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Millions of homes are being built in fire-prone grasslands
Climate change may be fueling fires, but housing demands are driving risk.
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5 years after the Camp Fire, a survivor reflects on Paradise’s recovery
After losing their home, Charles Brooks and his family chose to rebuild, and helped hundreds of others do the same.
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How Hurricane Ida turned a Louisiana nursing home into a living nightmare
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
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How Florida farmworkers are protecting themselves from extreme heat
Protecting the people who pick your food is as easy as giving them shade and water.
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In California, climate chaos looms over prisons — and thousands of prisoners — in a lake bed
How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.
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Biden’s $8 billion quest to solve America’s groundwater crisis
With little fanfare, the administration is using infrastructure funding to revive dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs in rural areas across the U.S. West.
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Welcome to Buckeye, the desert city out to surpass Phoenix by importing water
The Arizona city is eyeing "crazy" ideas to keep growing, including piping water hundreds of miles uphill from Mexico.