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New York City’s hottest new energy fight
Oil-fired power plants want to build new gas replacements just as a fresh slate of anti-fossil fuel legislators heads to Albany.
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Donald Trump, Kanye West, and a weird western bird are all somehow involved in a major conservation battle
“This is about the very survival of an ecosystem and the non-desertification of Western North America.”
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The DNC virtual roll call was also a cry for climate action
They didn't just talk about their love for calamari.
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Will fossil fuel sponsors be allowed at the next U.N. climate conference?
After years of fossil fuel logos, COP26 organizers are requiring sponsors to have a net-zero commitment.
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The irony: ConocoPhillips hopes to freeze thawing permafrost to drill more oil
Climate change is melting the ground so fast that the company may need to use "chilling devices."
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The first undeniable climate change deaths
In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.
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When facts fail to convince, storytelling may do the trick
A new study suggests that feelings might be the key to changing conservatives' hearts on climate change.
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Your future home could be powered by the bricks it’s built with
Scientists have imbued simple red construction bricks with the ability to store energy.
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Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist
And why they also try to "feminize science," labeling experts as shrill or emotional.
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What’s that smell? Scientists discover what makes locusts swarm.
A pheromone could be the key to ending devastating locust swarms.
