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European Aviation Emissions Surpass Pre-Covid Levels as Low-Cost Carriers Expand
European flight emissions have overtaken pre-pandemic levels, with Ryanair's carbon footprint 50% above 2019, exposing a growing gap between industry pledges and reality.
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Colorado's Shrinking Aquifer Is Unlocking Heavy Metals Into Rural Drinking Water
As Colorado's San Luis Valley aquifer drops, the geology itself is turning toxic, releasing heavy metals into wells that families have trusted for generations.
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The UK Car Industry's EV Demand Argument Has a Serious Credibility Problem
The UK car industry says EV demand is too weak to meet government targets. The data suggests the industry is telling only half the story.
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7 May 2026
The Lithium Rush Is Reshaping American Land. Who Pays the Price?
As U.S. policy turbocharges domestic lithium mining, a major investigative data project reveals which communities are being asked to bear the cost.
7 May 2026
Global Forest Loss Is Slowing, But the Forces Behind It Remain Dangerously Intact
Global forest loss is falling, but the trade rules and supply chain audits driving that decline may be masking deeper structural fragility.
6 May 2026
Shell Quit Nigeria's Delta. It Never Really Left the Oil Behind.
Shell sold its Niger Delta oil assets to burnish its climate credentials, but it kept trading the crude. That distinction is doing a lot of work.
5 May 2026
Chicago's Flooding Crisis Is a Systems Failure Decades in the Making
A little-noticed scientific bulletin warns Chicago's stormwater systems are already obsolete — and the worst storms haven't arrived yet.
4 May 2026
When the Storm Hits the Meeting Room: How Helene Fractured Addiction Recovery Networks
Hurricane Helene didn't just destroy homes. It severed the invisible social infrastructure that keeps people in recovery alive.
4 May 2026
America's 1872 Mining Law Is Fueling a Lithium Boom on Sacred Native Land
A 153-year-old mining law still governs America's lithium boom, and it has no requirement to consult Native tribes on ancestral lands.
3 May 2026
Lithium's Colonial Echo: How the Clean Energy Rush Is Repeating Old Wounds in Lakota Territory
The lithium rush beneath Lakota sacred land in South Dakota reveals how the clean energy transition risks repeating America's long history of colonial extraction.
3 May 2026
Zeldin's EPA Budget Cuts Would Halve the Agency That Protects American Air and Water
Senate Democrats called the EPA's proposed 50% budget cut a climate denier's manifesto. The real story is what half a budget actually dismantles.
3 May 2026
Ohio's Piketon Megaplant Faces the Paradox of Being Too Ambitious to Work
The Trump administration's plan to build America's largest power plant and data center on a nuclear remediation site may be undone by its own scale.
3 May 2026
FEMA's Reinstated Workers Signal the Hidden Cost of Silencing Disaster Experts
Fourteen FEMA employees spent eight months on leave for warning Congress about disaster preparedness cuts. Their reinstatement raises harder questions than it answers.