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Trump again shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining, and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.
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New York governor orders first statewide data center moratorium
Data centers have drawn vocal opposition at local public meetings and in state capitols across the U.S.
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Thousands flee as First Nations bear the brunt of Canada’s wildfires
Residents of one First Nations community went door-to-door warning neighbors before fleeing by boat. More than 900 fires continue burning across Canada.
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Wildfire smoke threatens the World Cup final. FIFA still doesn’t have a plan.
There’s no way to close off the open-air stadium where stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal are slated to square off.
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Energy
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A swarm of solar ‘bees’ are coming to western North Carolina community hubs
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The Pentagon is blocking more than 150 wind projects over drone fears
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‘Why take those jobs away?’: The unionized workers decrying Trump’s war on wind
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The nation’s biggest public utility just doubled down on coal, gas, and nuclear
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First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
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Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas
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A guide to the 4 minerals shaping the world’s energy future
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
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Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure
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Why did energy-saving tips disappear from the Energy Department website?
As the country sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.
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Line 5 tunnel in Michigan clears major permitting hurdle, in blow to opposition
Despite "adverse" impacts on ecological and tribal resources, state regulators said it's better than an oil spill in the Great Lakes.
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Biden’s climate law is dead. The energy transition might not be.
A year after Trump repealed the Inflation Reduction Act, the outlook for climate action is dark. But there are silver linings.
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The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare — it’s a carbon bomb
Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there's still time to reverse course.
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Data centers are booming. Indigenous leaders want help protecting their lands.
Indigenous leaders warn the U.N. that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence data centers threatens their rights.
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They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.
A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.
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A Bay Area financial analyst wants a piece of this mineral-rich seabed surrounded by 3 Pacific nations
As President Trump pushes seabed mining, the bid by an American startup reveals the limits of island nations' control over their neighboring waters.
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Nebraska wants data centers to come clean about water usage
The industry can be a black box of information. But as the state deals with persistent drought, residents and regulators want more answers.
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