For several hot July days in 2016, microbiologist Sabine Matallana-Surget swam in the waters near Pensacola Beach, Fla., with plastic bags full of seawater, crude oil, and a cleaning agent …
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California’s long-toed salamanders are one of the species threatened by rising rates of extreme fire in the state. Named for the unusual length of one of its hind toes, this …
Germaine Gooden-Patterson has lived in Clairton, Pennsylvania, for more than 15 years, but it wasn’t until she began a job as a community health worker in 2019 that she understood …
Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch issued a report entitled “We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,” about a part of Louisiana that …
Earthquakes and other natural events sometimes shake the seafloor near coastlines severely enough to cause underwater avalanches that rush down steep slopes, scouring the seabed and carrying sediment to greater …