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Beth Harrington’s 2025 documentary Our Mr. Matsura uses communally-held memory and traditional research to explore the little-known story of a Japanese photographer who documented the changing world ...

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The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding – a formal determination that six ...

Jonathan Levy is a professor and the chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Boston University. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.

Howard Frumkin is a professor emeritus of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative ...

Vijay Limaye ia an adjunct associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health ...

Jonathan Patz is a professor of environmental medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.

In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.

Columnist Miles Griffis reflects on the history of queer country dance and its importance to the gay community at a two-step lesson.

After years of missed deadlines, New Mexico is demanding that the Energy Department expedite the cleanup of so-called legacy nuclear and hazardous waste at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the ...