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![An offshore wind turbine, mostly white with a red stripe around the middle of its tower, against a partly cloudy sky]()
How to recycle the giant magnets inside wind turbines? These scientists have a few ideas.
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
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How air pollution delayed a surge in extreme rain
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
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Talking about climate change can be awkward. Just ask Tim Robinson.
Does cringe comedy have anything to teach climate scientists?
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Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl flight shows what’s wrong with carbon removal
A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry.
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![An aerial view of a massive bluish white chuck of snowy ice.]()
How do you stop a glacier from melting? Put up an underwater curtain.
A 62-mile-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, scientists say.
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Chemicals used in plastic food packaging linked to 10% of preterm births in 2018
The resulting costs to society could be as high as $8 billion.
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New study says the world blew past 1.5 degrees of warming 4 years ago
How scientists are using an unexpected organism — sea sponges — to refine climate projections.
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Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate
“Nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”
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1 year after the toxic train derailment, is East Palestine safe? Depends on whom you ask.
"We are truly the canaries in the coal mine."
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![Green trees and water and green marsh grass along Georgia coastline.]()
![Green trees and water and green marsh grass along Georgia coastline.]()
Advocates in Georgia call for better protections for salt marshes, a key carbon sink
Proposed changes to current law spur call for an overhaul.
