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Bottles filled with contaminated tap water from San Joaquin Valley communities are on display at the Visalia, California, office of the Community Water Center, which advocates for clean drinking water for all.

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How Water Contamination Is Putting California’s San Joaquin Valley at Risk

More than one million people in the San Joaquin Valley region have been exposed to unsafe drinking water in recent years from pesticides, arsenic, nitrate, and uranium. And many communities also face multiple environmental health threats.

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The Dangers Lurking in California School Drinking Fountains

It has become too risky for tens of thousands of children in the San Joaquin Valley to drink water at their schools due to chronic contamination by chemicals, pesticides, and other toxins.

A pistachio orchard in Tulare County, California, was planted during California’s five-year drought. A record 904 water wells were drilled in the county during 2015, in part to help sustain agricultural operations.

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The Fight for Groundwater in California’s San Joaquin Valley

Drought conditions continue for thousands of rural residents in the San Joaquin Valley who rely on groundwater, and the race to dig deeper wells is a losing game.

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Building Weather Resilience in the Face of Growing Natural Disasters

Why do Americans choose to live in areas that are risky and sometimes downright inhospitable?

Emily Gallagher

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Federal Court Rules Against EPA Delay of Methane Rule

EPA head Scott Pruitt had halted the implementation of the Obama-era regulation in May.

2017 heat waves nasa

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Simultaneous Widespread Global Heat Waves Are the New Norm

Late-spring warmth encircled the Northern Hemisphere, with records on every continent.

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EPA Creates Initiative Dedicated to Questioning Climate Science

The new initiative will work outside the normal peer-review process that climate scientists use themselves.

Rangers in Mount Rainier National Park.

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National Park Service Employees Are Going Rogue to Save Our Wildlife

But will their actions be enough to save the parks from the current administration?

Michelle Threadgould

The small island of Koh, surrounded by coral reef in Raja Ampat, located in eastern Indonesia's Papua region.

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What It Would Take to Restore One of the World’s Richest Marine Ecosystems

Raja Ampat, an island chain off the coast of New Guinea, is home to perhaps the world's richest marine biodiversity

A BP oil refinery in Carson, California.

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Climate Change in America Will Help the North but Slam the South

Overall, climate change's small gains won't be enough to offset its harms.