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COVID-19 already derailed last year's conference.
This week's heat wave will roast areas already gripped by severe drought, plunging reservoirs, and wildfires.
An enzyme-based recycling technology is poised to go commercial, but questions about cost and scalability linger.
A new report details 10 ways, from fracking to incineration, that plastic contributes to global warming.
A new study finds that low-income blocks have less tree cover and hotter average temperatures than high-income ones.
When a minor disaster shakes up the plans for a local ceremony, a young woman and her colleagues pull together to provide for the community.
As recycling heads to the dump, Maine and Oregon have a new strategy: Make companies pay.
States waited too long to decarbonize, and now they have to make tough choices.
Major tech brands like Apple and Microsoft must now give their smartphones and laptops "repairability" scores in France — and the initial results don’t look good.