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Old, unplugged oil wells on Navajo land continue to spew contaminated water, with limited action from federal agencies ...
Two January wildfires in Los Angeles County caused $65 billion in damages, making them the costliest fires in U.S. history ...
Floodwaters from Hurricane Helene killed dozens in North Carolina, where a lack of preparation and delayed evacuation orders left inland residents exposed to a storm supercharged by climate ...
Despite millions in funding, Texas prisons remain dangerously hot as officials dodge accountability on cooling ...
A new round of global negotiations over commercial deep sea mining is underway in Jamaica, with growing concern from ...
On Sept. 22, 2025, The NYU Langone Health Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards, in collaboration with A Plastic Planet, is hosting their second annual scientific symposium on plastics ...
A major global wetlands report finds that humanity has wiped out over 20% of life-supporting wetlands since 1970, threatening ...
A sweeping international study has found that prolonged exposure to air pollution, especially fine particulate matter, may ...
Wealthy countries are exporting plastic-laden waste to poorer nations as “refuse-derived fuel,” sidestepping global hazardous ...
In Colombia’s conflict-ridden Cauca region, Indigenous youth are risking their lives to protect ancestral lands from armed ...
Air quality across U.S. national parks has improved since the 1990s, but growing wildfire smoke and shrinking federal budgets threaten to reverse those gains.Niko Kommenda reports for The Washington ...
The Trump administration has revoked $4 billion in federal funding for California’s long-delayed high-speed rail line between ...