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“A bunch of countries and corporations are responsible for the mess. They have to bloody clean it up. As simple as that.”
Trees are great at capturing warming gases, but mass-planting efforts tell a tricky story.
A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.
The movement to recognize and protect the rights of nature scored another victory last month when an Indian court declared that the natural world should have legal rights on par with humans.
On a cold, damp beach in Louisiana, Henry Block is counting down the days until his Conservation Corps work ends and he can get back to building his digital world.
Australians delivered a strong mandate for climate action last weekend as they voted overwhelmingly for the center-left Labor Party, the Green Party, and pro-climate “teal” independent candidates.
Engineers know how to build a site that can safeguard nuclear waste for 100,000 years. The challenge is convincing people to live next to it.
Volunteer cartographers on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms.
Pollution from the 2019 fire remained elevated long after shelter-in-place warnings ended, according to an analysis of previously unreported air and monitoring data.
