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In an exclusive interview, Vanuatu’s climate minister Ralph Regenvanu discusses the country’s leadership on climate reparations and accountability.

A new analysis shows the world lost 10 million acres of tropical forest last year — an area the size of Switzerland.

Here’s why that’s important for the environment.

Cultivated meat has been touted as a salve for global warming.

Miners and their advocates have long demanded stricter standards on exposure to silica, a leading cause of an epidemic of black lung. They’re still waiting.

Air pollution will plummet as EVs and renewables are adopted, showcasing the public-health benefits of moving away from fossil fuels.

The Ogallala Aquifer serves farming communities in multiple states. When it runs dry, the agriculture industry in Texas and the nation is in jeopardy.

One advocate calls the coal ash pits in her town a "ticking time bomb."

“The burden now is on tribal nations to advocate for themselves and intervene whenever water rights are an issue.”

1 in 20 Americans have the "forever chemicals" in their drinking water. The new, $10.3-billion deal will kickstart the cleanup process.

Multnomah County’s suit is one of the first to seek damages related to a specific weather event.

A new report says U.S. households need to buy 14 million extra heat pumps, induction stoves, and other electric alternatives in the next three years.

In Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas, Black communities are fighting for their right to access clean water.

The labor movement and the environmental justice movement have a shared history — and today, workers in all kinds of sectors are banding together to call for climate action.

These businesses say: reuse, refill, return.

A rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management would cut leasing fees for those projects by 80 percent.

Millions sweat it out as heat indices reach 120 degrees and outages plague Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

As summer heatwaves loom and farmworkers take to the fields, an in-depth report highlights massive gaps in regulations, especially around pesticide use and exposure.

Over half the nation's coal ash sites are unregulated. If a new EPA proposal closes the loophole, what comes next for communities that live with them?

Decreasing greenhouse gases alone won't help communities of color that suffer from toxic air.