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![Photo of someone holding a grocery receipt over a cart full of food]()
![Photo of someone holding a grocery receipt over a cart full of food]()
The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it’s all about ‘affordability.’
A new "working-class climate agenda" seeks to provide economic relief and tackle global warming at the same time.
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![The Afsluitdijk, a causeway between Friesland and North Holland, is seen in an aerial photo taken by a drone.]()
![The Afsluitdijk, a causeway between Friesland and North Holland, is seen in an aerial photo taken by a drone.]()
Climate adaptation funding is scarce. Private investors could help.
A new report highlights how resilience projects from the Netherlands to Malaysia offer a model for tapping private investment to protect cities from climate change.
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![The sign outside a Shell station shows the price of gasoline and diesel fuel.]()
![The sign outside a Shell station shows the price of gasoline and diesel fuel.]()
The spike in diesel prices is quietly costing you billions
"You're probably feeling it in ways you don't realize.”
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![Photo of U.S. Capitol building is shrouded in haze from wildfire smoke]()
![Photo of U.S. Capitol building is shrouded in haze from wildfire smoke]()
How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.
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![Cattle belonging to rancher Mike Wintz stand in a pasture 20 miles north of Ashby where they were relocated to after the Morrill Fire burned much of the rangeland where Wintz’s cattle previously grazed.]()
![Cattle belonging to rancher Mike Wintz stand in a pasture 20 miles north of Ashby where they were relocated to after the Morrill Fire burned much of the rangeland where Wintz’s cattle previously grazed.]()
In Nebraska, wildfires are turning cattle ranching into a tricky business
Nearly a million acres in the state have burned this year. One expert calls it ‘a new kind of wildfire era.’
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![a forest with a dirt path through it on a blue-sky day]()
![a forest with a dirt path through it on a blue-sky day]()
Georgia’s forestry industry is in crisis. One solution could be in your medicine cabinet.
As paper mills close, the state legislature is offering the industry a lifeline.
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![Close up of Donald Trump wearing a red Make America Great Again hat]()
![Close up of Donald Trump wearing a red Make America Great Again hat]()
4 ways Trump is sabotaging climate action around the world
In just the last year, the Trump administration has derailed an international carbon tax, boosted forecasts for oil and gas, and sought to silence an island nation’s climate campaign.
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![A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)]()
![A man walks on rocks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)]()
The war in Iran could plunge the world into hunger
Farmers from Iowa to India depend on fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Much of their supply is stuck in the Persian Gulf.
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![Signs at BP and Shell display prices for gasoline at stations in Chicago, Illinois, on March 2. The war in Iran has caused prices to surge.]()
![Signs at BP and Shell display prices for gasoline at stations in Chicago, Illinois, on March 2. The war in Iran has caused prices to surge.]()
As gas prices soar, Trump is ignoring the lessons of the last oil crisis
Fuel economy rules have reduced U.S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up — and then sent gas prices through the roof.
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![A sign with current gas prices is displayed at a gas station in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2026.]()
![A sign with current gas prices is displayed at a gas station in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2026.]()
The Iran war is driving up energy prices. These companies are profiting.
Fighting in the Middle East has meant higher bills for consumers and windfalls for oil and gas companies.
