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Sámi need better legal protections to save their homelands
Indigenous territories are sacrificed for global climate goals.
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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.
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‘No rebuilding without them’: Trump’s immigration crackdown will affect disaster recovery
Saket Soni, founder of Resilience Force, says skilled restoration workers are doing the arduous task of repairing US cities affected by disasters.
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Maui’s post-wildfire housing crisis offers a warning for Los Angeles
After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.
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Deb Haaland, America’s first Native Cabinet secretary, considers her legacy
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Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change
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A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state
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Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of violence and threats
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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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The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
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Oh, great: Rat populations are surging as cities heat up
Hotter weather makes it easier for rodents to feed and breed. Washington, D.C. saw a 390 percent increase in rats over the last decade.
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A Michigan nuclear plant is slated to restart, but Trump could complicate things
Critics say bumpy early days of the new administration don't bode well for the industry.
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Trump wants more drilling, but the oil market is already saturated
Hundreds of idle oil leases sit untapped in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mango farms where? Climate change is scrambling where the world’s food is grown.
The well-traveled tropical fruit exemplifies how farmers are embracing new crops as the world warms.
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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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Trump wants Greenland. But what does Greenland want?
“There is no such thing as a better colonizer."
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Lab-grown meat rebrands itself to woo Trump — and RFK Jr.
The cultivated meat industry hopes a pro-business argument can win over skeptical Republicans.
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‘Paranoia and distrust’: How Trump’s mass firing of government watchdogs will affect climate policy
Experts fear the president will replace the fired inspectors general with loyalists who will turn a blind eye to corruption.
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Fiction to reality: Bridging the urban-rural divide
When you envision the future of sustainable living, do you picture a dense city or the rural countryside?
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