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![An illustration of Nevada's Thacker pass. In the background are hand-drawn mountains in sunset colors. In the foreground, an electric car is parked among patches of buckwheat and brush. A bird is about to take flight on the left side of the image.]()
![An illustration of Nevada's Thacker pass. In the background are hand-drawn mountains in sunset colors. In the foreground, an electric car is parked among patches of buckwheat and brush. A bird is about to take flight on the left side of the image.]()
The West has a new front in the war over electric cars
A carbon-free future requires a lot of mining. A battle brewing in Nevada shows it won’t be easy.
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Who’s talking about climate change on TV? Mostly white men.
For the fourth year in a row, less than 10 percent of climate guests were people of color.
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![A map of the United States with Extinction Rebellion flags on it]()
![A map of the United States with Extinction Rebellion flags on it]()
Too British for America? Extinction Rebellion is getting lost in translation.
Why the world’s most confrontational climate activist group hasn’t taken off in the U.S. — yet.
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![A map of the midwest with North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota highlighted and a pipeline and ears of corn on top]()
![A map of the midwest with North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota highlighted and a pipeline and ears of corn on top]()
A Midwest pipeline promises to return carbon dioxide to the ground
How conditions become ripe for carbon capture and storage to bloom in the ethanol industry.
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Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.
Big Oil's tweets rang hollow on International Women's Day.
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![A photo of the container ship Gjertrud Maersk, anchored off the coast of Virginia Beach on June 29, 2020. The large, blue vessel is topped with hundreds of colorful shipping containers]()
![A photo of the container ship Gjertrud Maersk, anchored off the coast of Virginia Beach on June 29, 2020. The large, blue vessel is topped with hundreds of colorful shipping containers]()
The world’s first ‘carbon-neutral’ cargo ship is already low on gas
Shipping giant Maersk announced plans for a green methanol-powered vessel by 2023. But there isn't enough of the fuel to go around.
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![A silhouette of an industrial plant spewing gray clouds against a blue sky.]()
Study: Equivalent of COVID emissions drop is needed every 2 years
"Instead of build back better, it is more often a case of build back, whatever."
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![A photo of a girl digging touching the rubble of her burned home in Talent, Oregon. She is in the center of the image in a white outfit. The ground and debris are stained red from an airdrop fire retardant.]()
![A photo of a girl digging touching the rubble of her burned home in Talent, Oregon. She is in the center of the image in a white outfit. The ground and debris are stained red from an airdrop fire retardant.]()
Will race and income inequalities trip up Cascadia’s fight against climate change?
Fires, floods, and pollution are exposing disparities in Washington and Oregon.
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![An animation of the words global warming in a red rectangle getting crossed out on top of a background of a greyscale earth.]()
Report: Nobody talks about ‘global warming’ anymore
It's all about the climate crisis now.
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As coal dies, the US has no plan to help the communities left behind
Coal country can reinvent itself — if it gets the cash
