A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are warning that people can get…
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How Climate Change Has Battered the West Before Summer Even Begins
A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are warning that people can get…
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North Korea Is Facing a ‘Tense’ Food Shortage
SEOUL — North Korea is bracing itself for a possible food crisis in the coming months. Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, issued a rare…
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Swiss Voters Reject Proposal to Ban Synthetic Pesticides
ZURICH — Voters in Switzerland on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have banned the use of artificial pesticides in Switzerland, preventing their use…
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Biden Administration to Restore Clean-Water Protections Ended by Trump
The original measure, known as the Waters of the United States rule, dates to the Obama administration and extended the range of bodies of water…
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Guatemala Is America’s Best Chance to Fix the Immigration Problem
But none of this feels even remotely possible in a Guatemala run by a corrupt and indifferent government and a rapacious elite that persists in…
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The Western Drought Is Bad. Here’s What You Should Know About It.
Much of the Western half of the United States is in the grip of a severe drought of historic proportions. Conditions are especially bad in…
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Amid Historic Drought, a New Water War in the West
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Through the marshlands along the Oregon-California border, the federal government a century ago carved a whole new landscape, draining lakes and…
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Long Before Beth Ford Became Land O’ Lakes C.E.O., She Cleaned Toilets
And I see a lot of companies that work to do this. I see a lot of C.E.O.s put a premium on their employees. What…
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Goodbye to a Yankee Farmer, the Ghost of Exit 8
By 9 a.m., all that remained of the tree was six thick feet of trunk, as bare as a thumb. When the crew ran chain…
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