Environment

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Environment

Sustainability & Climate

How to sell an 'ugly' vegetable? Give it googly eyes.

An eggplant with googly eyes.

Sustainability & Climate

Lonely road: These are the states where people drive to work alone the most

A close up of a young woman sitting in the driver’s seat of a car, smiling warmly.

Sustainability & Climate

Does climate change spell the end of 'sweater weather?'

Woman in sweater looking out over dramatic fall landscape.

Environment

Election 2024: Competing visions of how USDA funding can help rural America

A soybean harvester in a Tennessee farm.

Sustainability & Climate

Climate change is messing with city sewers—and the solutions are even messier

Cars in floodwater on the FDR highway in Manhattan, New York.

Sustainability & Climate

How to find free EV charging stations

An Electrify charging station in Austin, TX where many EV cars are charging.

Weather

The rural Americans too poor for federal flood protections

Cleanup efforts at the Isom IGA store in East Kentucky after the flooding of July 2022.

Environment

Just 5% of America's food waste is composted. Which states are getting it done?

A person scraping vegetable scraps from a cutting board into a compost bin outdoors. The scraps include leafy greens, onion peels and eggshells.

Sustainability & Climate

A history of fast fashion: ethical issues, high demand, and outsized influence on the US clothing market

Person holding shopping bags over clothing waste dumping site.

Sustainability & Climate

How and why states are committing to electric vehicles

An electric car charging.