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Abrahm Lustgarten

Abrahm Lustgarten is a New York writer and photographer who reports on the environment, health and sports.

A Texas State Flag flys in a yard filled with debris on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas flash flood is a preview of chaos to come

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A man who did not want to be identified holds up a sign while standing along Broadway as he joins hundreds of others during a large rally and protest outside of NOAA in Boulder, Colorado on March 3, 2025. (Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

White House proposal could gut climate modeling the world depends on

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John Tanton (Photo illustration by Salon/WikiMedia Commons/FredElbel743)

The Ghosts of John Tanton

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Aerial view of people walking along an almost dry arm of the Parana River, as water level reached a historic low, near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate crisis is on track to push one-third of humanity out of its most livable environment

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Locks are seen on the old Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon, Arizona, on August 31, 2022. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

“There’s just not enough”: A water war is brewing over the dwindling Colorado River

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Joe Biden and John Kerry (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

John Kerry, Biden’s climate czar, talks about saving the planet

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People work at the construction site of Chahe grand bridge of the Kunming-Chuxiong expressway in southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images)

How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease

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(AP/Donna Mcwilliam)

Unfair share: How oil and gas drillers avoid paying royalties

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Environmental Protection Agency headquarters (iStock/Skyhobo)

EPA reverses water pollution decision after lobbyist steps in

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(ProPublica)

Land grab cheats North Dakota tribes out of $1 billion, suits allege

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U.S. polluting water it may someday drink

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Thousands of small black boxes used for uranium mining are scattered across Christensen Ranch in Wyoming. (Abrahm Lustgarten/ProPublica)

On a Wyoming ranch, feds sacrifice water for uranium

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Federal government poisons America’s wells

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(AP/Keith Srakocic)

The trillion-gallon wastewater loophole

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Injection wells: The poison beneath us

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The New “Dallas”: Sex, scandal and U.S. energy policy

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Gulf spill criminals

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The FRAC Act under attack

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The toxic fallout of 9/11

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