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July 29, 2025

Why More Frequent Wildfires and Extreme Rainfall Are a Particularly Perilous Combo

Wildfires can fundamentally change how water moves through a landscape, leading to changes in both the availability and quality of water.

Carly Phillips
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July 28, 2025

Smarter Integration of Renewables Could Have Prevented the Blackout in Spain and Portugal

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July 24, 2025

President Trump’s Handouts to Fossil Fuel Industry Will Cost Public $80 Billion Over Next Decade

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March 30, 2022

War in Ukraine and the Climate Crisis Are Connected: Our Future Depends on Solutions that Address Both

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Oil and Gas Industry Hypocrisy Laid Bare By Russia’s War on Ukraine

Kathy Mulvey
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Five Grid Plans to Cut Fossil Fuel Dependence

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March 29, 2022

Violations of Scientific Integrity Are Killing Dogs (and Cats)!

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March 29, 2022

Why Are Gasoline Prices So Volatile?

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March 28, 2022

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March 26, 2022

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March 25, 2022

Supreme Court Ruling on Redistricting Targets Voting Rights Act

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March 25, 2022

Nearly One Million US Deaths from COVID-19: The Grim Consequences of Sidelining Science

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March 25, 2022

China’s Ukraine Problem

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March 24, 2022

How the War in Ukraine Could Trigger a Food Crisis

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March 24, 2022

Climate Change Is Turning California’s Wildfire Season into Wildfire Year

Carly Phillips
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March 23, 2022

The USDA Has a Plan to Fix Our Nutrition Crisis—But Will It Work?

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March 21, 2022

We Can Electrify One in Three Heavy Duty Trucks by 2030: Here’s How.

Sam Wilson
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March 21, 2022

Central Valley Farmworkers: Surviving Extreme Heat While Feeding the US

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March 18, 2022

China’s Broken Promise to Ukraine

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March 18, 2022

Your Voice Is Needed as EPA Updates its Rule on Risk Management of Chemical Facilities

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March 17, 2022

The EPA Is Shuttering its Online Archive: Why that Matters

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The Meteoric Rise in Satellite Numbers

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March 17, 2022

The COVID-19 Pandemic in Lakota Country and a Mighty Community Response

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March 16, 2022

The EIA Just Released a 30 Year Energy Outlook. It’s… Not Great

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March 16, 2022

As War Rages in Ukraine, Policymakers Must Reject Fossil Fuel Industry Spin

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

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March 16, 2022

What Is the Nuclear Taboo and Is Putin About to Break It?

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March 15, 2022

In California’s Central Valley, Drought Is a Growing Threat to Farms, Food, and People

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