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A shortage of potable water and the toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants the flood left behind has prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina.

Across the globe, Prime packages will now be cushioned by paper.

"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands."

Solar panels typically last 25 years, while shingles are good for 20. Waiting until you need to re-roof is usually the best course when going solar.

“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing.”

At a reforestation site in Washington, forest managers are experimenting with "assisted migration" — planting trees from warmer, drier regions — to boost the forest's resilience.

Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re talking about the political impact of Hurricane Milton, the second major storm to strike the United States in the last few weeks. I grew up in Tampa, Florida, less than 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes were never […]

No other part of the country has seen such a sharp rise in the number of big fires. The bigger challenge, though, is getting people to embrace the prescribed burns that can prevent them.

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America's farms?

Credit environmentally conscious students — and a handful of state funding programs.

Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. 

A judge will decide the fate of Ha’Kamwe’ as the Hualapai Nation fights the drilling in court.

More than 200 science, technology, engineering, and math professionals are candidates at the state and municipal level this year.

“They burn hot, they burn fast, and they're hard to extinguish."

The Golden State finally fixed its ban last month, but at least five other states still allow the distribution of extra-thick "reusable" plastic bags.

At least six people died in the storm, and some 80,000 ended up in shelters.

In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.

Congress gave the agency enough money to last the year. But back-to-back hurricanes are stretching resources thin.

In the series “Moral Hazards,” Grist explores some of the ethical conundrums of living in the era of climate change.

Azolla is a nutritious aquatic fern that grows like crazy. New research finds that the cyanobacteria within the plant are nontoxic, potentially clearing the way for Azolla to become a novel food.