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"Financial institutions need to be held accountable for their role in financing false solutions."
Climate change is driving mosquitoes to new heights, bringing the bugs, and the diseases they carry, to newly vulnerable populations.
Climate change means communities along the Mississippi River are experiencing longer and higher floods in springtime, flash flooding from heavy rains, as well as prolonged droughts.
A new study says the plants emit twice as much methane as previously thought.
The celebrated “loss and damage” fund is stalled over disagreements about who should pay in, who should receive funds, and the role of the World Bank.
A new study suggests unregulated “precursor” compounds account for half of total PFAS pollution at sites around the country.
Hydropower loss added 121 million metric tons of carbon emissions over 20 years — about the same as putting 1.3 million more cars on the road.
The city estimates that its wildly popular subsidies are helping to eliminate 170,000 vehicle miles traveled per week.
Regulators ban the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters, starting in 2027.
