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![An Amazon warehouse with shades of lighter and darker blue against a blue sky.]()
![An Amazon warehouse with shades of lighter and darker blue against a blue sky.]()
In New York, 1 in 4 residents now live within a half-mile of a mega-warehouse
The problem: The pollution from all the truck exhaust is mega-dangerous.
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![A brown house with a green roof and solar panels on the roof is surrounded by a lush tropical garden.]()
![A brown house with a green roof and solar panels on the roof is surrounded by a lush tropical garden.]()
The promise and the perils of Hawaiʻi’s renewable energy revolution
The closer the state gets to reaching its groundbreaking clean energy goals, the harder it will be to achieve them.
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Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ could happen again
A year after a major methane leak from underground gas storage, a new study identifies potentially thousands of similarly risky wells across the United States.
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![John Podesta, senior ddvisor to President Joe Biden, departs from a House Democrat caucus meeting at the Capitol in May 202.]()
![John Podesta, senior ddvisor to President Joe Biden, departs from a House Democrat caucus meeting at the Capitol in May 202.]()
John Podesta is a DC veteran. Can he make climate deals on the world stage?
Podesta takes over for John Kerry at a critical moment for global climate diplomacy.
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Ignoring Indigenous rights is making the green transition more expensive
“If you’re going to develop energy in the U.S. you’ve got to do it with the support of tribal communities."
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![Construction crews move sand to build a sand motor on the coast of Benin, in West Africa. The country is facing rapid erosion as a result of sea level rise.]()
![Construction crews move sand to build a sand motor on the coast of Benin, in West Africa. The country is facing rapid erosion as a result of sea level rise.]()
Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast?
As sea levels rise, engineers are using massive Dutch-inspired sand sculptures to protect shorefront settlements.
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![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
![Two boys stand on a rooftop to survey the flooding that inundated a vast swath of downtown Montpelier, Vermont on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.]()
A Superfund for climate change? States consider a new way to make Big Oil pay.
Vermont joins three others in trying to make the fossil fuel industry finance climate action.
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What happened when climate deniers met an AI chatbot?
A study suggests there could be an unexpected upside to ChatGPT's popularity.
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Slow down, do less: A Q&A with the author who introduced ‘degrowth’ to a mass audience
Kohei Saito talks four-day workweeks, private jet bans, and what we gain from reducing consumption.
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Climate change will kill 14.5 million people globally by 2050 — but mostly not directly
A recent report also projects $12.5 trillion in economic losses and $1.1 trillion in healthcare costs by midcentury.
