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There’s only one statewide ballot this year in Georgia — and it’s important
A guide to the candidates who want to set future energy policy.
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Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born
"What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one."
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Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?
Volunteer cartographers on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms.
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![A mural showing three coal miners is seen through the window of a business in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.]()
Coal miners are fighting Trump’s safety cuts — and winning
When the Trump administration moved to shut mine safety offices and shutter a program that protects miners from black lung disease, miners demanded it reverse course. It quietly did.
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![Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets at a Drax facility in Gloster, Mississippi.]()
![Birds fly past a pile of wood used to make pellets at a Drax facility in Gloster, Mississippi.]()
In California, a biomass company’s expansion raises fears of more fires
Facilities that make wood pellets have a track record of catching on fire. So why are there plans to build several near Yosemite's tinderbox forests?
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![A person wearing a helmet with a face shield, a yellow vest, and gloves places a large, metallic, rectangular prism on an assembly line]()
Trump’s second term is creating ‘a limbo moment’ for US battery recyclers
The president hasn't directly targeted the nascent industry, but his clean energy rollbacks could hurt it.
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When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.
New research suggests the currents that help shape the climate may be weakening more slowly than thought.
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Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas
Not so long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar. Now, with the coming of power-hungry AI platforms, they’re bypassing the grid, building their own gas-fired power plants on-site.
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New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
The research highlights the groundwater issues complicating the Colorado River's already strained water supply.
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The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
A federal judge in Phoenix provides a reprieve for Oak Flat.
