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![Alex Honnold speaks to Kat Bagley at Grist's Turning the Tide event]()
![Alex Honnold speaks to Kat Bagley at Grist's Turning the Tide event]()
Alex Honnold: ‘You just see how much it matters’
At Grist’s Turning the Tide event at SF Climate Week, free solo climber and solar energy advocate Alex Honnold shared how his love of climbing became a passion for empowering communities.
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![illustrated tick in a red box on top of a farm field]()
Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates.
The conspiracists are right about one thing: Ticks are getting worse.
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![The downtown of Murphy, a rural community in the mountains of North Carolina, is glimpsed through the trees.]()
![The downtown of Murphy, a rural community in the mountains of North Carolina, is glimpsed through the trees.]()
First crypto, now data centers: How tech is reshaping this North Carolina community
Cryptocurrency mines are being repurposed to power the AI boom, sparking a regional backlash.
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The Brazilian government keeps giving out mining licenses in the Amazon – in spite of evidence of gold ‘laundering’
An InfoAmazonia investigation found patterns of illegal gold laundering in the Tapajós River basin in Pará state, where Indigenous communities like the Munduruku people face mercury contamination from mining activity.
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![A geothermal well is seen on the banks of the Salton Sea.]()
![A geothermal well is seen on the banks of the Salton Sea.]()
Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech
Fervo Energy's IPO could raise $1.8 billion in one of the largest renewable energy public offerings ever, signaling growing investor confidence in clean energy.
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![coal plant in the distance with lagoons in the foreground]()
![coal plant in the distance with lagoons in the foreground]()
The EPA wants to shift monitoring of toxic coal ash to states
The move comes at a time when many state environmental budgets have been slashed.
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![An Indigenous organization protests the Thacker Pass mine during an Earth Day event in a public park on a spring day in Reno, Nevada.]()
![An Indigenous organization protests the Thacker Pass mine during an Earth Day event in a public park on a spring day in Reno, Nevada.]()
Report: Nevada’s lithium boom comes at the expense of Indigenous rights
As demand for critical minerals surges, Indigenous leaders and Amnesty International say mining projects are advancing without tribal consent.
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How climate change could help hantavirus find more hosts
Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.
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![A front end loader removes trash and beads left on Bourbon Street after Mardi Gras in 2009]()
![A front end loader removes trash and beads left on Bourbon Street after Mardi Gras in 2009]()
New Orleans wants to fix its Mardi Gras mess. So why is the trash pile still growing?
This year's Carnival resulted in 1.4 tons of beads, beer cans, and other trash along the city’s parade routes — the highest total on record.
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![Water flows around brown and white rock formations]()
![Water flows around brown and white rock formations]()
This summer, the American water crisis becomes real
Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the U.S., as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
