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The one-story home 100 yards from Lāhainā Harbor where Tiare Lawrence grew up was a typical…Wildfires will put even more pressure on the country’s housing crisis
Aug 4, 2024, 9:00 am By Li Zhou, Vox
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Aug 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Jessica Kutz, The 19th
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Aug 2, 2024, 4:00 am By Lylla Younes
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A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the…Indigenous geography could change how we relate to the Earth
Jul 31, 2024, 10:59 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The vision “Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try…‘Twisters’ is a climate movie, but not a very good one
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With 600 square miles burned so far, the Park Fire is already one of California’s biggest…‘A matter of life and death’: How disaster response endangers US farmworkers
Jul 30, 2024, 8:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last summer, a tree fell straight through a trailer occupied by…Does the plastics industry support waste pickers? It’s complicated.
Jul 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Around the world, an estimated 20 million people make a living by collecting discarded plastic,…Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
Jul 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Jennie Durant
For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in…How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change
Jul 30, 2024, 4:10 am By Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report
At the end of a semester that presaged one of the hottest summers on record, the students in…Critics of congestion pricing often end up supporting it. Here’s why.
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New York City’s plan to charge most vehicles $15 to enter downtown Manhattan would have eased…As US bets big on hydrogen for clean energy, local communities worry about secrecy and public health
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Billions of dollars in public money are beginning to flow to seven “hydrogen hubs” around the…One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why.
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One in 11 people worldwide went hungry last year, while one in three struggled to afford a healthy…
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