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Bloomberg Philanthropies and OceanX's ocean advocacy plan

Climate change will heat up cities and rural areas differently

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State says permit for refinery near national park justified

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From tigers to climate to the Amazon—we closed out last month with three bad, very bad, terrible bits of news for the environment.

Charles Benbrook: New study showing organic diets cut cancer risk is a big deal. Let’s treat it that way.

No study is perfect—but recent findings that organic food consumption cuts cancer risk highlights an opportunity to tackle a deadly, expensive health crisis

Peter Dykstra: Once upon a time …

It wasn't too long ago that "Republican environmentalist" was a thing.

Watch: The chemistry of a cover-up

New film exposes a decades-long corporate scandal surrounding a toxic Teflon chemical—and the power of a few determined people to change the world.