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The next deluge may go differently

Explore how Wisconsin Wetlands Funding aids in restoring ecosystems and managing floodwaters effectively across the region.
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The hidden devastation of hurricanes

Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.
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The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive.

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Opinion: How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant

Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries.

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Two ways of knowing: How merging science and Indigenous wisdom fuels new discoveries

What becomes possible when we combine the strengths of western science and Indigenous knowledge systems as we navigate humanity’s biggest challenges?

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Is ‘imagination activism’ the antidote to climate doom we’ve been looking for?

A new exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, asks, what if the most radical climate tool isn't technology, but the ability to dream?
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Trump plans to open more than a billion acres of U.S. waters to drilling

The plan from the Interior Department is one of the president’s most significant steps yet to increase domestic fossil fuel production.
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Violent 'storms' under Antarctica's ice could be speeding its decline

When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

Wright overhauls DOE, reflecting shift in US energy priorities

The Energy secretary has reshaped the department to promote fossil fuels, nuclear power and critical minerals.
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‘We can no longer predict the seasons’: why Indonesia’s coal mindset has to change

It’s a climate-vulnerable nation, while also being the world’s sixth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter. Global investment in climate action is vital.

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