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After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales’ future.

Southern right whales—once driven to near-extinction by industrial hunting in the 19th and 20th centuries—have long been regarded as a conservation success. After the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in the 1980s, populations began a slow but steady rebound. New research, however, suggests climate change may be undermining that recovery.

Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame

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After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises

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Climate-conscious New Yorkers hope the mayor hasn’t forgotten them.

During his New York City mayoral campaign, Zohran Mamdani courted votes from environmentalists. He promised to expand green spaces in public schools and equip them with renewable energy, to meet the demands of the city’s building electrification laws and to increase investments in city parks.

After a Slow Start on Climate, Zohran Mamdani Faces Scrutiny Over Parks Budget and Environmental Promises

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Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

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That would be American ratepayers—i.e., you.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with Katharine Kollins, the president of Southeastern Wind Coalition.

Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

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Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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County officials have said they will eventually close the incinerator, located in a predominantly Black community. Advocates want a concrete plan.

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.

Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator

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