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They brought in their big heavy equipment and started coming up Little River to remove debris,” Huggins said. The workers, ...

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As the U.N. body faces an American threat to its jurisdiction over deep-sea mining, diplomats have more or less left all the ...

Faced with a looming fuel crunch, some worry California will push aside its efforts to combat climate change to keep gasoline flowing.

New maps show that where animal feeding operations exist, higher percentages of Latino and uninsured residents also live.

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The boom in AI and data centers is driving Indigenous communities to defend their land, resources, and cultural knowledge from new forms of extraction.

Plastic pollution is toxic and everywhere. Now, legal experts say it’s a human rights violation. This week, they’re advocating for a U.N. treaty to safeguard people’s basic rights.

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