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“My name is Edith Abeyta.”  The word ‘question’ was tattooed across the backs of her fingers, which shook slightly as she spoke.  “I live in North Braddock. I live in a sacrifice zone. I live in a dystopia.” A collection of engineers, scientists…

California’s San Joaquin Valley, a strip of land between the Diablo Range and the Sierra Nevada, accounts for a significant portion of the state’s crop production and agricultural revenues. But with the state facing uncertain and uneven water supply due to…

On Wednesday morning in Manhattan, the United Nations Water Conference began in dramatic fashion when Mina Guli, a 52-year-old Australian foundation CEO and water activist, broke a blue ribbon stretched across the U.N. Plaza, completing her 200th marathon in a…

The 19th century may seem distant to us today, but in a new book by Alexander Nemerov, “The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s,” readers have a chance to walk through the woods of the early 1800s—and discover that the often contradictory ways we…

Republican lawmakers and right-wing political groups are doubling down on their calls for the Biden administration to temporarily halt all development of offshore wind farms along U.S. coasts after 8 dolphins found stranded on a New Jersey beach this week…

Utah’s Uinta Basin has long been a place of economic booms and busts thanks to the region’s reliance on the oil and gas industry. Keith Heaton thinks that could change with the construction of a new rail line in the area that could drive a quadrupling of…

A Pennsylvania-based asphalt supplier this month accepted delivery of a special vehicle. This super-size dump truck was the first construction machine sold in North America to be made with low-emissions steel, according to the manufacturer, Volvo Group of…

Cases of a potentially fatal infection from a seawater-borne pathogen have increased off the U.S. Atlantic coast as ocean waters warmed over the last 30 years, and are expected to rise further in future because of climate change, according to a study published…

Originally published by The 19th This story was reported in part by a callout in our daily newsletter, asking readers about their own experiences with electric vehicles. Subscribe to be a part of these conversations. A few months ago, Renee Russak and her…

Carbon emissions from wildfires in boreal forests, the earth’s largest land biome and a significant carbon sink, spiked higher in 2021 than in any of the last 20 years, according to new research.  Boreal forests, which cover northern latitudes in parts of…