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![A plowed field and water tower are shouded in fog in an aerial photo of the town of Stanton, Tennessee.]()
![A plowed field and water tower are shouded in fog in an aerial photo of the town of Stanton, Tennessee.]()
A huge EV factory is coming to west Tennessee. Here’s how locals are ensuring they benefit.
Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.
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![A road cuts through pristine forest with a mountain the background.]()
Plan to stash planet-heating carbon dioxide under U.S. national forests alarms critics
Around 140 groups have called for an extension of public comment period over U.S. Forest Service proposal amid questions about safety and impact.
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![A taxi and motorcycle speed by an apartment building with AC units.]()
![A taxi and motorcycle speed by an apartment building with AC units.]()
‘A matter of survival’: India’s unstoppable need for air conditioners
Access to sufficient cooling could further drive up the already rampant inequality in the country.
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![Beautiful landscape of the amazon rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.]()
![Beautiful landscape of the amazon rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.]()
En la Amazonía ecuatoriana, el petróleo amenaza décadas de esfuerzos de conservación liderados por indígenas
El proyecto Socio Bosque en Ecuador ha sido clave para proteger la selva. Ahora la empresa petrolera estatal está aprovechando los vacíos legales para extraer petróleo.
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Extreme Weather
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The libertarian developer looming over West Maui’s water conflict
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Extreme heat led to a Taylor Swift fan’s death in Brazil. Could it have been prevented?
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Arizona’s Gila River Indian Community moves forward with first solar canal project in the US
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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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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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The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells
Meet the Fixers
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![Residents and volunteers work to salvage possessions among the rubble of homes in the aftermath of a tornado that struck Rolling Fork, Mississippi on March 24, 2023.]()
![Residents and volunteers work to salvage possessions among the rubble of homes in the aftermath of a tornado that struck Rolling Fork, Mississippi on March 24, 2023.]()
Extreme weather cost $80 billion this year. The true price is far higher.
The U.S. saw 25 billion-dollar weather disasters this year — more than ever before. Next year could be worse.
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![Beautiful landscape of the amazon rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.]()
![Beautiful landscape of the amazon rainforest, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.]()
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, oil threatens decades of Indigenous-led conservation
Ecuador’s Socio Bosque project has been key to safeguarding the rainforest. Now, the country’s state-owned oil company is exploiting its many loopholes.
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Climate reparations are becoming a reality. Here’s what they could look like.
Grist asked 10 countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” fund launched at COP28.
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![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
![An activist at COP28 calls for climate action on food systems.]()
The world now has a roadmap for food and climate. But it’s missing a few things.
For one, the U.N.'s proposal barely mentions fossil fuels.
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What abandoning fossil fuels could look like in the Arab world
The researcher Hamza Hamouchene outlines a path toward a clean energy future without "green colonialism."
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![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
![Youth climate activists waving pickets join a demonstration in New York City demanding climate action.]()
The latest youth climate lawsuit tries a novel argument: The unique environmental vulnerability of children
Eighteen California children say the EPA fails to recognize the unique physical and mental impacts climate change has on kids.
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After COP28, a long road ahead
Four advocates share their reflections on this year’s Conference of the Parties, and where the work goes from here.
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![Participants attend day thirteen of the COP28 climate conference on December 13, 2023 in Dubai. The conference went into an extra day as delegations continue to negotiated over the wording of the final agreement.]()
![Participants attend day thirteen of the COP28 climate conference on December 13, 2023 in Dubai. The conference went into an extra day as delegations continue to negotiated over the wording of the final agreement.]()
How an oil executive led the world to an agreement to ditch fossil fuels
After weeks of debate at COP28, countries decide to “transition away” from oil and gas — while stopping short of a “phaseout.”
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