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The environmental impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be felt far longer than the war itself.

We asked our readers to make a wish for 2025. If even one of these wishes comes true, the world will definitely be a better place!

The Indian government is spending $9 billion to create a megaport, airport and city on this remote island. Critics fear the impact on pristine forests and the lives of indigenous inhabitants.

Environmental activist Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera just won an award for grass-roots activism for his fight to protect a pristine section of Puerto Rico's coastline.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick about how the burning of wood pellets instead of coal has led to increased deforestation in the U.S.

Waves of plastic pellets are washing up on beaches in Sri Lanka. Marine biologist Asha de Vos says the microplastics are spreading in the water and scientists don't yet understand the full effects.

The demise of the bag-consuming herbivores led Gloria Majiga-Kamoto to push for Malawi to enact a promised ban on single-use thin plastic. Her activism has won her a 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Fred Tutman has protected the Patuxent River in Maryland for decades. As a Black man in a field dominated by white conservationists, it's been his mission to welcome in more people of color.

Trump's pick to lead the EPA, former N.Y. Rep. Lee Zeldin, does not have a major profile on environmental issues and is expected to embrace Trump's promised roll back of environmental regulations.

At a time when communities feel fractured, here's a look at online communities taking a pragmatic approach to changing the world for the better.