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Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, the founder of advocacy group Beyond Plastics. After World War II, plastics grew from a cheap wartime alternative to a staple in the Americ

There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.

Virginia’s seven federally recognized tribes said they’re cautiously optimistic about their prospects of becoming full signatories to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement even after program leadership missed the July 1 deadline for presenting a roadmap on how to include the tri

This article previously appeared in Cambridge Day. From Boston’s Museum of Science to the Watertown Dam, the Charles River this spring was rife with river herring swirling in the water like scores of baby sharks. Near the dam, dozens of the aptly named herring gulls perched on ro

When Antonio Machado Allison assisted with earthquake response efforts in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas in 1967, he felt confident in the way the government mobilized its teams. When he arrived, Allison described immediately seeing a plethora of state agencies onsite organizing

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with UC Boulder senior research scientist Ted Scambos.  Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere marks the dead of winter in Antarctica, usually a time

Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

Despite fearmongering that EVs will crash the grid, an emerging technology will help them support it by providing backup power.

Researchers in Vermont infected 5,300 American elms with a lethal dose of Dutch elm disease. Those that survive could help them build the most genetically diverse, disease-resistant population yet.

Record heat, wildfire threats, and an unprecedented stage modification highlighted the growing challenge global warming poses to endurance sports.

Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.

Utah's Republican politicians and the Trump administration said shrinking Bears Ears was what locals really wanted.

The world has found ways to adapt without crude from the Strait of Hormuz. Experts say that won’t last.

French Polynesia says it was "approached, but not consulted" about a Bay Area startup's plan to explore seabed mining near its marine preserve.

From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.

The state’s first Superfund research center is looking into how climate change is resurfacing industrial pollution.

Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.

Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.