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Radical eco-activists have made it into mainstream fiction. Is reality next?
History suggests novels about monkeywrenching could inspire real-world copycats.
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California takes the lead on curbing Big Oil price gouging
The state's pioneering law could set limits on the industry's profits, and impose fines on those that exceed it.
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Melting Antarctic ice may strangle vital ocean currents
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects on the ocean's ability to store carbon.
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The natural gas pushback
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
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Supreme Court hears Navajo demands for Colorado River water rights
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With the Willow project on the horizon, some Alaska Natives worry about traditional foods
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Oscars goody bags contained ‘unseemly’ gift: certificates for Aboriginal land
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Biden administration pledges $25 million to bring bison back to tribal lands
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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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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The disease after tomorrow
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The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells
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Ghosts of Polluters Past
More climate fiction
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Who buys electric cars in California — and who doesn’t?
Electric cars are almost nonexistent in Black, Latino, low-income, and rural communities — revealing the enormous task that California faces electrifying the entire fleet.
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American cities want to recycle their plastic trash in Mexico. Critics call it ‘waste colonialism.’
A new recycling plant in Mexicali raises legal and ethical concerns.
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Biden administration releases road map to scale up nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage
The reports address key challenges and potential solutions for getting these clean energy technologies off the ground.
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The tiny island nation of Vanuatu just scored a big climate win
It convinced the UN to urge the world's highest court to rule on whether polluting nations must address climate change
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Canadian security forces arrest Wet’suwet’en protesters in clash over pipeline construction
“This harassment and intimidation is exactly the kind of violence designed to drive us from our homelands.”
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The next farm bill could be a historic climate law – if Congress can agree on it
Will the legislation help turn agriculture, a climate problem, into a climate solution?
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It’s been a place of worship for centuries. Now a copper mine threatens its future.
Resolution Copper is one court ruling away from destroying one of the Apaches’ holiest sites.
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How climate change made the Mississippi tornadoes more likely
A new study explores the link between rising temperatures and more deadly tornadoes.
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