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Weaving Beauty into the Borderlands
Through wall-size juxtapositions of bright, open flowers and jagged, disjointed lines, artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood explores the fractured landscape along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Fight for Climate Action or “Stop Pretending”?
As far as future-building strategies go, Greta Thunberg’s passionate optimism beats Jonathan Franzen’s placid pessimism any day.
Week 138: NOAA v. Hurricane Donald
President Trump revokes the Clean Water Rule and doubles down on his fake weather forecast, while the Bureau of Land Management hitches up its wagons to move west.
Coal Ash Is Hazardous. Coal Ash Is Waste. But According to the EPA, Coal Ash Is Not “Hazardous Waste.”
And the coal industry is more than happy to keep things that way.
Week 137: Trump's Light Bulb Rollback Takes Us Back to the 19th Century
Plus, the EPA wants kudos for complying with a legal settlement, and another Trump official flees into the arms of an oil company.
Are Kentucky Farms Under Attack from Flocks of Ravenous Vultures? Not Quite.
Scientists respond to an Associated Press article that paints black vultures and turkey vultures as “flying fiends.”