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Puerto Rico’s rooftop solar boom is at risk, advocates warn
Rooftop solar has been a lifeline for the U.S. territory during blackouts. Now a government entity wants to undo a law protecting a key solar program.
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![Low warehouse-like buildings sit in a parking lot on the end of a bay under a gray sky.]()
As New York’s offshore wind work begins, an environmental justice community awaits the benefits
A labor agreement guarantees jobs for unions, but making sure Sunset Park residents are included remains a challenge.
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What’s the difference between Indigenous nations co-managing or co-stewarding their land? A lot.
Being a "steward" of the land isn't enough for Native peoples.
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The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought
Miles of seawater are flowing under Thwaites Glacier, undermining an Antarctic ice sheet and threatening rapid sea level rise.
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In a debut book, a love letter to eastern North Carolina — and an indictment of colonialism as a driver of climate change
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As sea levels rise, the Quinalt Nation moves to higher ground
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Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.
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How the Miccosukee Tribe plans to stop oil drilling in the Everglades once and for all
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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A pot of unspent federal money could have prevented Jackson’s water crisis
A new report surfaces a trail of red flags that the EPA didn’t raise.
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![Close-up of a hand with multicolored pieces of microplastics in it, with a finger pointing to them.]()
Microplastics are in human testicles. It’s still not clear how they got there.
People eat, drink, and breathe in tiny pieces of plastics — but what they do inside the body is still unknown.
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![A resident of the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City rests after receiving drinking water. Many residents of the city have been affected by the contamination of groundwater wells amid a severe drought.]()
![A resident of the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City rests after receiving drinking water. Many residents of the city have been affected by the contamination of groundwater wells amid a severe drought.]()
As reservoirs go dry, Mexico City and Bogotá are staring down ‘Day Zero’
Cape Town, which beat a water crisis in 2018, holds lessons for cities grappling with an El Niño-fueled drought.
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![A woman with intricate tattoos and red face paint stares directly into the camera with protest signs behind her]()
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The key to better climate outcomes? Respecting Indigenous land rights and autonomy.
A new conservation study carries important implications for global climate targets.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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Five creative visions for the future, from Looking Forward’s readers
Announcing the winners of our first cli-fi drabble contest.
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Northern Michiganders are getting off propane — and on to natural gas
The state’s largest utility says natural gas is a bridge fuel, but advocates say it’s no climate solution.
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![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
![Food cooking over a wood-fired stove in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenya, in 2015.]()
Billions of people cook over open fires. Are gas stoves the solution?
Last week in Paris, dozens of countries agreed to tackle harmful cooking methods — but sidestepped the controversial question of how to replace them.
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Small island nations get big climate victory in international maritime court
Advocates say the ruling makes clear that complying with the Paris Agreement is not enough.
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