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Lessons From Salt Lakes for Making a Home in a Changing World

Caroline Tracey’s book “Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History,” traces the history and decline of some of the world’s saline lakes, but also looks at how “queer ecology” can help us find our place in ephemeral environments.

By Wyatt Myskow

Earth’s Greatest Underwater Migrations Are Disappearing

Report Shows Earth’s Climate is Out of Balance, as Indicators Hit New Extremes

People step into the pink water near the Great Salt Lake’s Stansbury Island in Utah on Sept. 9, 2024. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Politics

As Prices Soar, EPA Greenlights Higher Ethanol Blends in Gasoline

The agency typically doesn’t allow smog-creating ethanol blends in the summer but is relaxing that restriction to appease consumers and farmers.

By Georgina Gustin

White House’s ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Wartime Mandate Meets Volatile Market Reality

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

A grain bin stands in a corn field in Marne, Iowa. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Justice & Health

Iowa’s Cancer Crisis Linked to Pesticides, PFAS, Fertilizer and Radon, Report Says

The state is one of a handful where cancer diagnoses are on the rise.

By Anika Jane Beamer

Climate-Fueled Wildfires and Dust Storms Drove Up Air Pollution Around the World Last Year

Replacing Toxic Lead Pipes Could Drive Job Creation in Illinois, Report Finds

Poultry manure is spread as fertilizer on a northwest Iowa corn field. Nitrate from fertilizer that seeps into Iowa drinking water sources has been singled out as a potential  driver of the state’s rising cancer rates. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

Fossil Fuels

Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

Water negotiators are facing a worsening water supply forecast with record-low snowpack across the West.

Scott Franz, KUNC

Yes, Venezuela Has a Ton of Oil—But Its Biggest Opportunity Is Offshore Wind

How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda

Sunlight glimmers on the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Clean Energy

Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

Seeking a sixth term, the Maine senator’s passivity in the face of executive branch power grabs undermines her greatest electoral strength, as much as it does climate action.

By Nathaniel Eisen

South Texas Officials Didn’t Know Tesla Was Discharging Lithium Refinery Wastewater Into Local Ditch

The Vanishing Next Generation of US-Made EVs

Sen. Susan Collins enters the U.S. Captiol on Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

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