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“The coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker.”
Merriam-Webster's word of the year is all about deception. Guess where it comes from?
“Thwaites is really holding on today by its fingernails, and we should expect to see big changes over small timescales.”
Local communities want to electrify, but gas interests have other ideas.
The petrostate pitched a plan to cut carbon at COP27. And it’s covered in oil.
The bigger question about Joe Manchin’s fossil fuel provisions is if they’ll succeed on the senator’s own terms.
Inside the effort to standardize the design of returnable containers.
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.
Fueled by immigrant labor, the loosely regulated industry exposes workers to lethal toxins that are making them sick long after the cleanup.