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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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PENSACOLA, Fla. — On hot summer nights in her hometown of Starke in rural North Florida, Susan McLeod remembers waiting impatiently for the mosquito truck’s rumble and smoke to billow into sight. The ...

Millions of people around the world will pause Wednesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...

April 22 marks the 56th Earth Day. Founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin in 1970, it was created to bring attention and education to environmental issues. (Just the year before, in 1969, ...

I was blessed to watch the sun rise and set over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon a few times last year. It was wondrous, but the magic was dimmed by the sheer amount of litter along the trails. The ...

Silent Spring is one of those books where many people think they know what it says, have opinions about it, even if they haven’t read it. It’s a science book that, when you sit down and crack it open, ...