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Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things worse
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the biggest polluter in the industry.
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Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher
Surviving Hurricane Katrina gave Daniel Aldrich's research a new focus: understanding how disasters shape the politics of a place.
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Nearly 200 people were killed last year protecting the environment
Most were Black or Indigenous.
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Climate change is drastically changing life for Indigenous peoples in the Pacific
A new U.N. report finds that the southwest Pacific region faced more extreme drought and rainfall than average last year, and dozens of disasters.
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As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem
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They settled in Houston after Katrina — and then faced a political storm
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This simple farming technique can capture carbon for thousands of years
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Climate change is messing with city sewers — and the solutions are even messier
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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EV sales are growing. So why are automakers getting cold feet?
From Ford to Mercedes-Benz, major automakers are walking back aggressive electrification goals they set just a few years ago.
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As Tornado Alley shifts east, bracing for impact in unexpected places
Experts say the causes are still unclear, but the change is consistent with a warming world. The effects on the ground could be devastating.
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How Big Oil’s big money influences climate research
A new study offers the first comprehensive look at the ties between fossil fuel companies and universities.
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An unlikely line of defense during heat waves: Food banks
Food pantries and meals-on-wheels organizations are taking on a new role during climate emergencies.
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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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From the cradle: How kids, newborns, and the unborn jump-started South Korea’s historic climate lawsuit
A constitutional court has ruled that South Korea can’t just set a carbon neutrality target — it has to have a roadmap to making it real.
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As Pennsylvania chooses the next president, its unions are choosing clean energy
A coalition of trade unions have launched a new advocacy group, Union Energy, to ensure that Pennsylvania's workers get a “just transition” to a fossil-fuel-free economy.
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Biden’s FEMA director tried to fix the agency. Did she succeed?
In an exclusive interview, Biden FEMA chief Deanne Criswell discusses her attempts to create a “very different” disaster agency.
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What back-to-back storms did to Lake Charles, Louisiana
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and today we’re going to be talking about a place one journalist dubbed, “the most unfortunate city in the United States.” It’s been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the […]
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