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Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.
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Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.
Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.
Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.
Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.
Utah's Republican politicians and the Trump administration said shrinking Bears Ears was what locals really wanted.
The world has found ways to adapt without crude from the Strait of Hormuz. Experts say that won’t last.
French Polynesia says it was "approached, but not consulted" about a Bay Area startup's plan to explore seabed mining near its marine preserve.
From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.
Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.
Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.
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