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As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put
They survived the BP oil disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and decades of industry spoiling their wetlands. Whatever their future holds, the people of Grand Bayou want to decide it for themselves.
The Trump Administration Wants to Set Water Safety Back 50 Years
With their latest rollback, the president and the EPA chief show that they either don’t understand how water pollution works—or simply don’t care.
Through Haunting Tunes, Polar Ice Crashes Into Chi-Town
An art installation’s latest act has musicians interpreting the sounds of Antarctica’s disintegrating icescape.
The VIPs in Davos Just Got a Cold, Hard Dose of Global Warming Reality. Will It Take?
Greta preached. Trump prattled. Meanwhile, the CEO of finance giant BlackRock acknowledges that “climate risk is investment risk.”
In Glacier National Park, Ice Isn't the Only Thing That's Disappearing
Two species of tiny stonefly have been added to the Endangered Species List because their habitat is expected to melt by 2030.
One of Our Most Important Environmental Laws Just Turned 50—Cue Trump Attacking It
At polluters’ written request, the president is now trying to gut NEPA, the Magna Carta of environmental law.
Australia Is Burning. Jakarta Is Drowning. Welcome to 2020.
The planet is sending us an unmistakable signal that we need to wake up and take real action to combat the climate crisis. And this is the decade we need to do it.