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Across Georgia, nearly 15 percent of families are food insecure, meaning they have limited or uncertain access to adequate food, according to Feeding America.
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The Finnish government released its Truth and Reconciliation report, which documents years of harm done to the country’s Indigenous Sámi people.

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Gussie Lord of Earthjustice said litigation is going to be an uphill battle, but adds that the Bad River Band believes it’s their responsibility to protect the area’s watershed and environment.
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Puerto Rico’s electrical grid was in bad shape before Maria, but blackouts have become routine in the years since the storm. Maria hit Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 miles per hour.
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Natural gas compressor stations have a significant negative impact on local communities’ air quality, emitting volatile organic compounds.
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Several studies have shown that grizzly mortality increases with road density, including around Yellowstone.
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Illinois is lagging on battery storage, projects that collect solar and wind energy to use when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

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The rediscovery of an ancient settlement site, sandwiched between industrial complexes on Corpus Christi Bay, has spurred a campaign for its preservation by Native American groups in South Texas.
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Oil and gas companies operating in Pennsylvania reported creating nearly 8.8 million tons of solid waste between 2017 and 2024.
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The EPA told The Salt Lake Tribune that it will take “well over” $100 million to clean up the plant’s decades of environmental problems.
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Much of the western U.S. has been unusually warm for this time of year, leading to low levels of snowpack in mountain ranges from British Columbia to California.
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Nonprofits, churches, universities, and other groups have taken many approaches to rural hunger.
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The volatility of wind resources in winter, paired with the greater chance of thermal outages, are the difficult parts of wintertime within ERCOT.

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The impact of this thermal stress on the kelp is a complex process. They tend to do poorly in warming waters and begin to disintegrate when temperatures reach higher than 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit).

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How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up? Despite state efforts to track it, there’s no way to know for sure.
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Five-feet-tall, monogamous and known for elaborate dances, barely two dozen of these birds remained a century ago.
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In Pennsylvania, contamination from fracking is layered on top of earlier waves of pollution from coal mining, manufacturing and oil drilling.
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Signed into law by President Bill Clinton in January 2001, the roadless rule prohibited new road development or redevelopment for timber harvesting on almost 60 million acres of land.
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The North Slope of Alaska holds about 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making it one of the largest known sources in the United States.
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Scientists have predicted that by the end of the century, the world might potentially warm by 2.3 degrees C to 2.5 degrees C, leading to a surge in extreme weather events.
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