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Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land.

In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 coal-fired power plants around the clock.

We need wild salmon—and not just because they’re tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health.

New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent.

Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that permit juries to convict defendants without unanimous agreement.

Composer Hanns Eisler was a lifelong communist and self-described Jacobin. His music provided the soundtrack for both the tragedies and triumphs of German antifascism.

Through local action, Democrats this November have a chance to untilt the playing field in every state that now has an extreme partisan gerrymander.

With a few limited exceptions, correctional practice today remains underpinned by retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. These realities beg the question: isn’t there another way? We have failed to ask this question with sufficient seriousness

Unions are taking a stand to protect TPS holders with the message that immigrant rights are worker rights.

On the one hand, Texas is a staunch law-and-order state where conservatives support Trump's immigration agenda; on the other hand, if ICE is too successful, employers are wondering where they're going to find people to man their businesses.