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![Collage: a bulldozer with abstract flames behind it, two hands in handcuffs, and a black line representing a pipeline below]()
![Collage: a bulldozer with abstract flames behind it, two hands in handcuffs, and a black line representing a pipeline below]()
Jessica Reznicek set fire to Dakota Access Pipeline construction. Is she a terrorist?
Amid tightening protest laws, the activist is appealing a district court’s ruling applying a “terrorism enhancement” to her sentence.
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![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year
World governments have made "strikingly little effort" to solve the problem.
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![An apartment building with a sign advertising apartments for rent]()
What if apartment listings had to include energy-efficiency scores?
How energy disclosure could help lower renters' utility bills and tackle climate change.
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When wheat never dies
Could commercially viable and tasty perennial crops like Kernza be regenerative agriculture's holy grail?
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![Collage of outlines of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona with trees and a carbon removal facility on top]()
![Collage of outlines of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona with trees and a carbon removal facility on top]()
Why Boulder County and Flagstaff are enlisting cities to suck carbon out of the atmosphere
Move over, Big Tech: These communities are building a local coalition for carbon removal.
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![Crowd of people protesting the treatment of the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in Brazil]()
![Crowd of people protesting the treatment of the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in Brazil]()
Report: Europe’s chicken supply chain has a human rights problem
Cheap poultry for markets, restaurants and pets comes at the expense of Indigenous peoples in Brazil.
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![A male farmer wearing overalls and a red cap looking down at dry, cracked earth caused by severe drought]()
![A male farmer wearing overalls and a red cap looking down at dry, cracked earth caused by severe drought]()
‘Flash droughts’ are Midwest’s next big climate threat
New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning.
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North Carolina house that collapsed into the sea is a warning for millions of Americans
States and the federal government can do more to protect homebuyers, like reforming flood disclosure laws.
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![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
Although the data is thin, advocates say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture
Because most of the systems aren’t yet on the market, there’s precious little real-world data proving they work.
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![The Sacred Maori mountain of Te Mata peak in the Hawkes bay of New Zealand.]()
![The Sacred Maori mountain of Te Mata peak in the Hawkes bay of New Zealand.]()
Using a board game to plan for a changing planet
For one Māori community, a board game sparked serious discussions about flood risk.
