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Jane Goodall’s legacy of empathy, curiosity, and courage
As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure.
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![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
![Crews on a ridgeline prepare to install a huge rotor on a wind turbine on Altamont Pass in the San Francisco Bay Area.]()
US experienced staggering growth in solar and wind power over the last decade
Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals.
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![A trash can floats through the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in September 2018.]()
![A trash can floats through the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in September 2018.]()
North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.
Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch.
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![Steel mills along a lake on a stormy day]()
![Steel mills along a lake on a stormy day]()
The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved.
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped.
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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![illustration in the style of WPA posters of 3 electricians with electric bolts above them; a heat pump and solar panels in the background]()
To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
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![An electric Rivian delivery truck at an Amazon distribution facility in Aurora, Colorado.]()
![An electric Rivian delivery truck at an Amazon distribution facility in Aurora, Colorado.]()
The EPA’s push to clean up trucking goes way beyond 18-wheelers
Delivery trucks, school buses, and other short-haul vehicles will electrify much faster than big rigs, easing air pollution in urban neighborhoods.
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![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
![burned out trees and empty lots of ash in the wake of a wildfire by the ocean]()
Indigenous Pacific wildfire survivors on Maui can finally get FEMA help
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules.
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![A woman in a long-sleeved black shirt and a white hard hat stands in front of an industrial construction site.]()
![A woman in a long-sleeved black shirt and a white hard hat stands in front of an industrial construction site.]()
In Texas, ex-oil and gas workers champion geothermal energy as a replacement for fossil-fueled power plants
Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source.
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![A woman in a baseball cap pours liquid from a bucket into a large container as another woman watches from her side.]()
![A woman in a baseball cap pours liquid from a bucket into a large container as another woman watches from her side.]()
Midwest maple syrup producers adapt to record warm winter, uncertainty as climate changes
Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa, and elsewhere, experts say.
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![Power lines along the Savannah River at dusk form a pattern of intersecting lines with the cables of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge in the distance]()
![Power lines along the Savannah River at dusk form a pattern of intersecting lines with the cables of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge in the distance]()
With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels
Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning.
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![A person in protective clothing fumigates a street against the dengue virus]()
![A person in protective clothing fumigates a street against the dengue virus]()
Puerto Rico declares an emergency as cases of dengue fever spike
Warmer temperatures are driving outbreaks of dengue worldwide, with millions of cases already reported in 2024.
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![A landscape view of bulldozers and trucks working at a landfill as seagulls fly overhead]()
![A landscape view of bulldozers and trucks working at a landfill as seagulls fly overhead]()
Landfills bake the planet even more than we realized
Aerial monitoring finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.
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