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Trump just killed the EPA’s ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.
The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court.
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Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won’t lower prices
There’s no two ways about it: Eating more beef is bad for the planet and the climate.
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Growing evidence points to link between autism and wildfire smoke
Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in young children.
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Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
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Utilities in the Southeast may be overestimating the AI boom
Power companies are already building more costly fossil fuel infrastructure than data centers may actually need.
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Data centers are scrambling to power the AI boom with natural gas
As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.
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Geothermal could replace almost half of the EU’s fossil fuel power
Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
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What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
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Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
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Inside the historic effort to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.