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Only 40 miles separate voracious Asian carp from the Great Lakes. To stop them, Illinois must reckon with its legacy of coal ...
Two years ago, the Supreme Court made it easier to destroy swamps and marshes. Agricultural lobbyists want to keep it that ...
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...
There’s this stigma that if you’re homeless, then you’re useless. But collecting bottles and cans — it is work.” ...
As the Trump administration boosts fossil fuels and rolls back regulations, mayors are greening their cities — in more ways than one.
After days of intense political infighting between ultraconservative and moderate Republicans, the House of Representatives ...
In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: ...
Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years.
The disappearance of glaciers is also creating opportunities for the multibillion-dollar mining industry. Like migrating salmon, mineral exploration companies are moving quickly into areas exposed by ...
Trump weakened the understaffed National Weather Service. Some in the storms' paths wonder if those cuts contributed to the ...
Last week, environmental groups decried plans from the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind and “reconsider” drinking water limits for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS ...