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Trump Team Plans Cuts at HUD Office That Funds Disaster Recovery

February 20, 2025 - 09:45
Staff at the office, a branch of the U.S. housing department that Congress uses to address the worst catastrophes, would be reduced by 84 percent.
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What Are You Supposed to Do With Climate Numbers Like These?

February 19, 2025 - 16:44
A provocative new book asks what we owe one another in a heating world.
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Alaska Lawsuit Aims to Block Trump’s Offshore Drilling Plans

February 19, 2025 - 13:46
The suit, filed in Alaska, is likely to be the first of many challenging the administration’s goal of expanding fossil fuel production.
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Trump Administration Moves to Fast-Track Hundreds of Fossil Fuel Projects

February 19, 2025 - 05:02
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has cited President Trump’s claim of a national energy emergency to speed up permits for new gas pipelines and other projects.
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Map: Where Landslides in California Quicken Their Pace

February 18, 2025 - 18:17
A new map shows where land movement is accelerating, buckling roads and collapsing homes.
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Dickson Despommier, Who Championed Farming in Skyscrapers, Dies at 84

February 18, 2025 - 18:05
A microbiologist, he popularized “vertical farming” — raising crops in tall buildings — to remediate climate change and feed more people.
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Trump’s Cuts Could Make Parks and Forests More Dangerous, Employees Say

February 18, 2025 - 17:22
Thousands of employees who helped oversee vast areas of wilderness have lost their jobs in President Trump’s moves to shrink the federal work force.
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USAID Climate Programs Fighting Extremism and Unrest Are Closing Down

February 18, 2025 - 14:12
Heat, drought and floods are growing security risks, Western defense officials say, feeding instability and violence that could prove costly in the long term.
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Censored Science Can’t Save Lives

February 18, 2025 - 05:00
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
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War Is Killing The Planet

February 18, 2025 - 05:00
In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.
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California’s Push for Electric Trucks Sputters Under Trump

February 17, 2025 - 09:56
The state will no longer require some truckers to shift away from diesel semis but hopes that subsidies can keep dreams of pollution-free big rigs alive.
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Praise Song for a False Spring

February 17, 2025 - 05:02
Any sign that nature is working as it ought to reminds me to keep faith in the future.
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How Trump Is Quietly Upending Federal Rules

February 17, 2025 - 05:01
The Trump administration is quietly upending government rules and policies.
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As Trump Targets Research, Scientists Share Grief and Resolve to Fight

February 16, 2025 - 14:47
At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.
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