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Softshell clams flourished for centuries on the Passamaquoddy’s Pleasant Point Reservation, before overfishing and climate change. Now, more than a million are maturing in a garden created three years ago by tribal members. By Sydney Cromwell SIPAYIK, Maine—Clams have been…
The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.”
Amid rising repression of climate science domestically, researchers from universities around the country are lending their expertise to an international effort. By Bob Berwyn Even as the U.S. federal government rapidly retreats from science-based decision-making, adopts climate-damaging energy policies and…
The rule protecting remote wilderness areas received 1.6 million public comments when it was developed. People will have just 14 business days to comment on a key part of its rescission. By Sarah Mattalian The U.S. Department of Agriculture is…
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas. By Nina Sablan CHESTER, Pa.—In this small city south of Philadelphia,…
From its source in the wetlands near Zambia’s northwestern border, through the industrial zones of the Copperbelt, to where it plunges through a steep gorge toward the Zambezi, the Kafue River sustains some of Southern Africa’s richest ecosystems, vital to…
Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as…
Live explosives on army training sites in the UK countryside mean many wildfires cannot be tackled.
Regulators say they tweaked the notification system based on community feedback. But some residents and pesticide reform advocates say they still need precise locations—and bans on the most toxic chemicals. By Liza Gross Farmworkers and their families have long demanded…
The Rio Grande states and the Department of Justice are one step closer to resolving a long-standing Supreme Court case over water rights. By Martha Pskowski EL PASO—The Rio Grande flows over 1,800 miles from the mountains of southwestern Colorado…