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![Two massive warehouse-like white buildings sit next to a residential neighborhood.]()
Virginia has the biggest data center market in the world. Can it also decarbonize its grid?
Dominion Energy, the state’s largest utility, says new natural gas plants will be needed to meet rising electricity demand, while the state studies how this booming sector will impact Virginia’s transition to renewable energy.
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![Three glass bottles, one of which holds red bubbles, attached to hoses sit on a windowsill.]()
![Three glass bottles, one of which holds red bubbles, attached to hoses sit on a windowsill.]()
Cattle are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Hawaiian seaweed could change that.
Local businesses in Hawai’i are getting big funding boosts to help make farmed algae part of the solution in addressing the amount of methane cattle produce.
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![digital collage of planet earth, a tomato seedling, and mars on a dark gray space background]()
Why a new method of growing food on Mars matters more on Earth
Turns out growing crops on the Red Planet is a lot like growing food on a climate-ravaged Earth.
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![Employees work on a school bus on the assembly line at Blue Bird Corporation's manufacturing facility in Fort Valley, Ga.]()
![Employees work on a school bus on the assembly line at Blue Bird Corporation's manufacturing facility in Fort Valley, Ga.]()
A labor win at Georgia school bus factory shows a worker-led EV transition is possible
Where federal dollars and green jobs are flowing, unions see an opportunity to organize the right-to-work South.
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![An artistic rendering of the EarthCARE satellite with radio antenna extending from the front and a tail of solar panels sticking off the back flies above the cloudy Earth]()
![An artistic rendering of the EarthCARE satellite with radio antenna extending from the front and a tail of solar panels sticking off the back flies above the cloudy Earth]()
A new satellite could help solve one of our climate’s biggest mysteries: Clouds
After 23 years and nearly $900 million, EarthCARE is poised to provide an unprecedented look at how clouds and aerosols shape, and respond to, climate change.
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A rare celebration of Indigenous Pacific cultures underscores the cost of climate change
The festival highlights a cultural scene that is threatened by rising seas and dangerous storms.
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![An array pf tall steel smokestacks and pipes with one central smokestack that is billowing white smoke.]()
![An array pf tall steel smokestacks and pipes with one central smokestack that is billowing white smoke.]()
Illinois Legislature puts the brakes on a carbon capture boom
A two-year moratorium on pipelines would be a first in the Midwest. Already, more than 20 capture wells have been proposed.
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As the climate changes, many species are teetering on extinction. How much should we intervene?
In ecosystems like Alaska’s boreal forest, preventing biodiversity loss is no longer possible. Scientists are beginning to grapple with what comes next.
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The mysterious X factor behind a year of unbelievable heat
Was this extra warming a blip, or a sign that climate change is veering off predictable tracks?
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What’s behind the record outbreak of spongy moths in the eastern US?
Blame drought — and a careless French entomologist.
