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Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.
Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
Models show that currents could slow by more than 40 percent within 30 years, with potentially devastating effects on the ocean's ability to store carbon.
As COP29 climate talks approach, developing nations are pushing for a huge boost in decarbonization and disaster funding.
Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.
A data-driven disaster tool shows “bias” against rural communities.
"Financial institutions need to be held accountable for their role in financing false solutions."
In New Mexico, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”