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Why countries struggle to quit fossil fuels, despite higher costs and 30 years of climate talks and treaties -- Kate Hua-Ke Chi, Tufts University

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Why higher tariffs on Canadian lumber may not be enough to stimulate long-term investments in US forestry -- Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee and Adam Taylor, University of Tennessee

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Trump's words aren't stopping China, Brazil and many other countries from setting higher climate goals, but progress is slow -- Shannon Gibson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes -- Marguerite Xenopoulos, Trent University and Michael R. Twiss, Algoma University

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Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience -- Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Flood-prone Houston faces hard choices for handling too much water -- Ivis García, Texas A&M University; James M. Kaihatu, Texas A&M University, and Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University

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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire -- Nina Fontana, University of California, Davis and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, University of California, Davis

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Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally – here's why -- Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Boise State University

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History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function -- Susan L. Cutter, University of South Carolina

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Erie Canal's 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed the environment forever -- Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain -- Jessica Beaudette, Arizona State University

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How to identify animal tracks, burrows and other signs of wildlife in your neighborhood -- Steven Sullivan, Miami University

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Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including from used oil and gas wells -- Moones Alamooti, University of North Dakota

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A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions -- Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan

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From the pulpit to the picket line: For many miners, religion and labor rights have long been connected in coal country -- Richard J. Callahan, Jr., Gonzaga University

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Why do big oil companies invest in green energy? -- Michael Oxman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Trump reversed policies supporting electric vehicles − it will affect the road to clean electricity, too -- Jeremy J. Michalek, Carnegie Mellon University

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AI's ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiency -- Divya Mahajan, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns and campuses – but community input will be key -- Aditi Verma, University of Michigan

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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much -- Peyton McCauley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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'Big Beautiful Bill' will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy -- Daniel Cohan, Rice University

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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency's ability to keep pollution out of air and water -- Elizabeth Blum, Troy University and Chris Sellers, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)

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Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won't fix America's wildfire problem -- Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Forrest Fleischman, University of Minnesota, and Tony Cheng, Colorado State University

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Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact -- Barbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University

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Environmental law is changing to defend the climate and planet at local and global levels -- Dana Zartner, University of San Francisco

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What Trump's budget proposal says about his environmental values -- Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University

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Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that's a problem for aquatic life and people -- Li Li (李黎), Penn State

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Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it's business more than politics -- David L Levy, UMass Boston and Rami Kaplan, Tel Aviv University

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How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue -- Joe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

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Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought -- Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin

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Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization -- Michael Childers, Colorado State University

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Hidden treasures of America's national parks are closer than you might think -- Jeffrey C. Hallo, Clemson University

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Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identity -- Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University and Michael Childers, Colorado State University

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From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools -- Seth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee; Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee, and Jordan Brasher, Macalester College

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A walk across Alaska's Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data -- Alexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder

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Are people at the South Pole upside down? -- Abigail Bishop, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes -- Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham

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As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millions -- Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University and Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder

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At Antarctica's midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent's long history of dark behavior -- Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University

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Industrial facilities owned by profitable companies release more of their toxic waste into the environment -- Mahelet G Fikru, Missouri University of Science and Technology and Jennifer Brodmann, California State University, Dominguez Hills

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Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood -- Chunrong Jia, University of Memphis; Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, University of Memphis, and Namuun Batbaatar, University of Memphis

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You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming in lakes – new maps show how risk from 'forever chemicals' varies -- Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Jiameng Zheng, Louisiana State University ; Wendong Zhang, Cornell University, and Xibo Wan, University of Connecticut

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A red meat allergy from tick bites is spreading – and the lone star tick isn't the only alpha-gal carrier to worry about -- Lee Rafuse Haines, University of Notre Dame

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How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holes -- Yuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Critical minerals don't belong in landfills – microwave tech offers a cleaner way to reclaim them from e-waste -- Terence Musho, West Virginia University

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US, Ukraine sign 'economic partnership' centered on Ukraine's wealth of critical minerals – but extracting them isn't so simple -- Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington

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Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump's order could clear the way for operations soon -- Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii

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Greenland's rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract -- Paul Bierman, University of Vermont

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