Environment

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Trains

For high-speed rail to work in America, America will have to change.

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World Leaders Think We’re Blowing Our Best Chance to Save the Planet

Crucial climate talks have reached a stalemate.

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Here's What the Earth Will Look Like After All the Ice Melts

Courtesy of Business Insider.

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Kids Who Breathe More Pollution Have Lower Grades

A new study links exposure to emissions with poor academic performance.

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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Trains

For high-speed rail to work in America, America will have to change.

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World Leaders Think We’re Blowing Our Best Chance to Save the Planet

Crucial climate talks have reached a stalemate.

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Here's What the Earth Will Look Like After All the Ice Melts

Courtesy of Business Insider.

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Kids Who Breathe More Pollution Have Lower Grades

A new study links exposure to emissions with poor academic performance.

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LATEST

World Leaders Think We’re Blowing Our Best Chance to Save the Planet

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This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Trains

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President Obama Eats a Half-Mauled Salmon Carcass in Alaska and Likes It Very Much

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Here’s What I Saw in a California Town Without Running Water

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Here's What the Earth Will Look Like After All the Ice Melts

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Kids Who Breathe More Pollution Have Lower Grades

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California Is About to Ban Those Little Pieces of Plastic in Your Toothpaste and Face Scrub

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California Is Fining a Company Listed on Starbucks' Bottled Water Labels—for Making the Drought Worse

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Maybe We'll Win the War Against HIV After All

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California Is About to Do Something Great That No State Has Ever Done Before

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3 Hurricanes Are Hitting the Pacific at the Same Time, and the View From Space Is Amazing

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Coal Companies Are Dying While Their Execs Grab More Cash

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Can This Genius Strategy Stop Big Ag from Dumping Fertilizer Into Drinking Water?

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Obama Is a Climate Hypocrite. His Trip to Alaska Proves It.

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Pope Francis

A Lot of American Catholics Have Never Heard of Pope Francis' Most Important New Message

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Black Lives Matter Began When New Orleans' Levees Failed

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Undercover Video Exposes the Dark Side of Chicken McNuggets

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Monsanto Halts Its Bid to Buy Rival Syngenta—For Now

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10 Years After Katrina: Will New Orleans Survive the Next Super Storm?

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Mutant Super Lice May Be Coming to a School Near You

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How to Fight Big Ag by Drinking Really Good Tequila

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Baby Sea Lions Are Dying

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Salad Seems Really Virtuous, Right? It's Not.

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VIDEO

President Obama Eats a Half-Mauled Salmon Carcass in Alaska and Likes It Very Much

Here's What the Earth Will Look Like After All the Ice Melts

CHARTS

California's Devastating Fire Season Is the New Normal

These National Parks Got an "F" in Air Pollution

INTERACTIVES

The Great Frack Forward

Deep Inside the Wild World of China's Fracking Boom

Here's How Many Ridiculously Hot Days Your City Will Have in the Future

MAPS

California Is on Fire. This Map Shows Where.

This Map Shows What San Francisco Will Look Like After Sea Levels Rise

LONGREADS

This May Be the Most Radical Idea in All of Professional Sports
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Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing.

PHOTO ESSAYS

These Stunning Photos Show the Urban Sky Like You've Never Seen It Before

These Photos of Sea Creatures Soaked by Oil in California Will Break Your Heart

Photo Essays + Slideshows

Photo Essay: Chasing Meth in Laurel County, Kentucky

Stacy Krantiz's intimate look at methamphetamine addicts and the cops trying to to nab them.

From Russia With Love: Photos of Brave Gay Activists Fighting Homophobia

Russian gay activists show amazing courage in the face of violence and laws designed to drive them underground.

Photos of the First AIDS Hospice Center Tell a Story of Struggle and Resilience

Get some tissues ready.

Moving Photographs of Japanese American Internees, Then and Now

"We were citizens, but now we were not."

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