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![Dam Of The Chicago Drainage Canal, Joliet [Between 1880 And 1901]. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)](https://www.salon.com/app/uploads/2022/03/chicago-drainage-canal-joliet-0304221.jpg "America’s largest inland port is running out of water")
America’s largest inland port is running out of water
Adam Mahoney
The proposed solution — a 31-mile-long pipeline draining Lake Michigan — is dividing residents of Joliet, Illinois
The Trump-Putin killer weed has deep roots — in New Jersey’s swamp of corruption
Bob Hennelly
Former New Jersey governor's "Bridgegate" scandal has odd links to Jan. 6 — and even to Putin's Ukraine invasion
Dire United Nations report warns inaction on climate means death
Eric Schank
A UN panel's report finds a 'brief and narrowing window' remains to avoid the worst of climate change
Nuclear winter, crop failures and fallout: What nuclear war would do to civilization
Matthew Rozsa
Food shortages, ozone depletion, exacerbated climate change — and a relatively unscathed Southern Hemisphere
UN report warns climate change could spur 50% more wildfires by 2100
Zoya Teirstein
Governments are spending too much money on fire suppression and not enough on prevention
Montana mice may hold the secret to virus spillover
Jim Robbins
Researchers hope to create a model system to better understand ecology of viruses, including coronaviruses
How the Philadelphia pandemic of 1793 foreshadowed the social problems of the COVID-19 era
Matthew Rozsa
Americans scapegoated immigrants, and pushed quackery and fakes cures, during the pandemic of 1793. Sound familiar?
Biden tries to reverse Trump’s impact on the courts — but continues to defend parts of his agenda
Jon Skolnik
President Biden has even chosen to expand one of Trump's most draconian policies
An “emerging crisis”: The climate is changing too fast for plants and animals to adapt
Diana Kruzman
New UN report highlights how warming temperatures are upending nature's life cycles
Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson on Putin’s deep appeal to “dictator-friendly” Republicans
Dean Obeidallah
On Salon Talks, Rick Wilson breaks down the stakes of the "MAGA crazy" midterms and 2024, and what Dems need to win
Sea levels have been rising since the American Civil War. The reason? Coal
Eric Schank
The burning of coal in the Victorian Era inadvertently caused nineteenth-century climate change
Putin’s threat to the world grows — and much of our news media is not up to the challenge
Brian Karem
I grew up under the fear of nuclear war. The news we consume now is often lacking in crucial context
Road salt runoff is making freshwater lakes inhospitable
Eric Schank
America's freshwater lakes — and therefore many regional water supplies — are at risk from de-icing chemicals
The problem with the populists “free thinkers” — they are just lazy
Amanda Marcotte
Joe Rogan and Elon Musk fanboys aren't "populists" — just lazy, entitled men afraid of progress
Will deer-tick virus be the next big epidemic? A new study raises troubling questions
Matthew Rozsa
A recent study in Pennsylvania found the highest-ever concentration of ticks carrying an oft-fatal virus
The world’s poorest bear the burden of heat — and it’s getting worse
Lina Tran
By 2100, they’ll see 23 more days of heat waves each year than the world’s richest
Adlai Stevenson and the H-bomb: When a losing candidate mattered
Matthew Rozsa
When most Americans were overdosed on Cold War propaganda, a two-time presidential loser made a difference
Why can’t Hollywood sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism?
Kyle Galindez
The limitless imagination of these genres hits a roadblock when it comes to envisioning other political systems
This is what would happen to Earth if a nuclear war broke out between the West and Russia
Matthew Rozsa
Climate change is not the only man-made threat that could wipe out humanity; a nuclear war would also do that
Biden’s biggest enemy: Trump judges
Jon Skolnik
Trump-appointed judges are making party-line rulings to block President Biden's agenda
The actual cost of a car can be as high as $1 million — and society pays for much of that
Matthew Rozsa
An economic analysis finds that the actual cost of car ownership is vastly underestimated
Trump threatens Hillary Clinton with death all over again — and nobody seems to care
Chauncey DeVega
Media shrugs off Trump's latest calls for violence because his claims are preposterous — but his fans are listening
Climate change brings thinner, more unstable ice to the Great Lakes
Diana Kruzman
Average maximum ice cover on the lakes has fallen 22 percent over the last 50 years
Cargo, with a side of hornets, flies, and crabs
Tim Lydon
Global shipping is moving invasive species around the world. Can world governments agree on preventative measures?
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