Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas
An arctic wind cut across Prudhoe Bay, sending spindrifts swirling as Energy Secretary Chris Wright stepped onto a podium hastily
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Techonology
We’re all at risk if Trump dismantles this legendary lab
You may not know it, but you’ve benefited from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. For more than half a
Read MoreHere’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest
A new study published this month in the journal Environmental Politics reveals that efforts to repress climate and environmental protest
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How the devil is in the details of greener new jobs
What makes a job sustainable — both eco-friendly and liable to stick around? That question is at the center of
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The year the US doubled down on critical minerals
President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought
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Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding
A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. West Coast
Read MoreHow the Trump administration is fast-tracking logging in Illinois’ only national forest
When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest
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The country’s biggest magnesium producer went bankrupt. Who’s going to clean up the $100M mess?
Bill Johnson has witnessed the extent of US Magnesium’s pollution up close. He’s seen the wastewater pond that was so
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How Trump’s Big Ag bailout is alienating his MAHA base
At a White House roundtable last Monday, president Donald Trump, alongside Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and a handful of other
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How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of
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