Why utilities don’t move power lines out of hurricanes’ way.
Millions of Floridians are ready to get on with their recovery from Hurricane Irma, which roared through the state earlier this week, pummeling homes...
Three Mile Island fights once again for its nuclear survival.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Workers are setting the groundwork at Three Mile Island for a maintenance outage this month to replenish Unit 1’s uranium core, an elaborately choreographed event...
Trump says ‘we’ve had bigger storms’ when asked about Harvey, Irma and climate change.
President Trump speaks to reporters in the press cabin aboard Air Force One on his way to Washington after viewing damage from Hurricane...
In Irma’s wake, millions of gallons of sewage and wastewater are bubbling up across...
Flooding caused by Hurricane Irma is seen from a U.S. Marine helicopter accompanying President Trump as he flies over storm damage near Fort...
I'm a woman who fought wildfires for 7 years. Climate change is absolutely making...
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300,000 families living in US-Mexico border towns face exposure to toxic stress
Roughly 300,000 Texans living in impoverished border communities known as 'colonias' are facing substandard housing, lack of resources and exposure to toxic stress. New...
New Orleans greenery post-Katrina reflects social demographics more than hurricane impact
Popular portrayals of "nature reclaiming civilization" in flood-damaged New Orleans, Louisianna, neighborhoods romanticize an urban ecology shaped by policy-driven socioecological disparities in redevelopment investment,...
Americans may finally be ready to look at a carbon tax.
In the wake of the devastation from hurricanes Harvey and Irma, climate change has been on people’s minds. At the same time, the Trump...
Florida’s poop nightmare has come true.
In the days and hours before Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida, its residents were treated to copious media speculation about nightmare scenarios. This monster...
Time for action on oil trains.
Ask the Teaneck Fire Chief where an oil train accident ranks among the things that keep him up at night, and Anthony Verley responds,...
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