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Climate change is on the ballot —even if Dems aren’t saying those words

The Democrats have been accused, fairly, of “climate hushing.” But they’re finding subtle ways to connect environmental issues with voters’ pocketbook concerns.
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Meet the flower whose evolution is outpacing climate change

Some populations of scarlet monkeyflowers can evolve fast enough to save themselves from climate change-induced drought. This is the first time researchers have documented evolutionary “self-rescue” in the wild.
Trans Alaska pipeline along the Dalton Road

Trump exempts oil exploration in Arctic petroleum reserve from environmental reviews

The Interior Department issued a notice exempting wintertime oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from the reviews.

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Lawsuit seeks answers on EPA’s abandoned CAFO pollution panel

US regulators are illegally withholding records related to the disbanding of a panel set up by the Biden administration to address water pollution from factory farms.

Workers overlook the Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline Construction Site in Minnesota forest with excavators and bulldozer.

‘We are seen as disposable’: Rural residents fight a proposed gas pipeline

Research shows natural gas pipelines — and the public health risks they carry — are concentrated in low-income and minority areas.

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‘Every day above 1.5 C is now going to matter’

Environmental scientist Debra Roberts encourages people to ask questions and pressure policymakers to take bold climate action.

A satellite view of the Mediterranean and Northern Africa including the Caspian Sea to the east of the Black Sea

The Caspian Sea has been shrinking for decades. Now, a new island has emerged

Parts of the northern Caspian could face an Aral Sea-like scenario, while climate change and human water use are adding pressure on the region.

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A construction ban on data centers would be better for Ohio than the status quo, study says

Forcing AI companies to generate 90% of the power through renewables would be best, a cost-benefit analysis has said.

A view of a river flowing under a bridge in a dry landscape

‘It’s a beautiful river in the middle of a hellscape’

As climate change dries New Mexico, the Pecos faces a growing threat as it runs through the Permian Basin oilfield.
Two penguins facing each other in a grassy area

Inside the collapse of earth's largest penguin colony

New research shows that a remote, uninhabited volcanic island has lost over half a million chinstrap penguins in 15 years to warming seas.

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Opinion: How the U.S. public lost its say on environmental policy

The Trump administration is systematically undercutting the public comment process, stifling dissenting input, while skirting federal laws.

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