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![A car at a crossroads leading to a clean city and a city covered in smog]()
![A car at a crossroads leading to a clean city and a city covered in smog]()
COVID-19 is ‘killing transit.’ Will it permanently change how we get around?
Now that states are reopening, it's time to rethink how we get around.
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![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
What greater good? COVID is unmasking America’s collective action problem.
The debate over masks shows the limits of American cooperation.
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![Philly Thrive Protest]()
![Philly Thrive Protest]()
Philadelphia’s oil refinery is dead, but the fight for accountability continues
Local residents are now laser-focused on making sure they are not shut out of plans to remediate and redevelop the property.
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![Thawing permafrost soil]()
![Thawing permafrost soil]()
Arctic forecast: Sunny with a higher chance of carbon emissions
A process called photomineralization could release an additional 30 billion metric tons of carbon from melting permafrost.
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![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
Construction begins on the world’s biggest liquid air battery
The battery will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.
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![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
A prescription for a post-COVID economy: A national climate bank
It probably won't happen if President Trump wins in November.
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![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
This Alpine glacier is melting. So a ski resort put a tarp on it.
Alpine resorts get creative to combat rising temperatures.
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![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
![A sphere covered in city buildings that looks like the novel coronavirus.]()
Does city living spread coronavirus? It’s complicated.
"We have to make a distinction between density and overcrowding."
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![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
Clean clothes or clean oceans? Now you don’t have to choose.
The key to lowering your microfiber footprint: wash your clothes on cold.
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![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air
A new study reveals that the continent's green patches act as a carbon sink.
