What your cheap clothes cost the planet
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s
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Techonology
Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have
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The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance.
The county health worker scanned the Omaha home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was 2022, and
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Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine
Read MoreA huge cache of critical minerals found in Utah may be the largest in the US
A Utah company says it has unearthed a massive deposit of minerals crucial for building electric vehicles, semiconductors, satellites, magnets,
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2025: The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us
As the year comes to a close, 2025 looks like a turning point in the world’s fight against climate change.
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The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the
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How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods
In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to
Read MoreWhen Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call?
When Krithi Karanth walks into a forest village in the shadow of India’s Bandipur National Park, she is often greeted
Read MoreThe Navajo Nation said no to a hydropower project. Trump officials want to ensure tribes can’t do that again.
Early last year, the hydropower company Nature and People First set its sights on Black Mesa, a mountainous region on
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