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Maybe green energy needs ‘information batteries’ too

Researchers are exploring whether new strategies can get tech giants to use clean power when it’s plentiful, so utilities can avoid burning fossil fuels when it’s not.

Matt Simon Technology February 7, 2022

The temperature threshold the human body can’t survive

Research says it's happening sooner than we once thought.

Jesse Nichols Climate August 17, 2022

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Despite Biden’s promises, logging still threatens old forests and U.S. climate goals

Federal agencies continue to move dozens of logging projects forward in federal forests across the United States.

Grist Creative Sponsored by Climate Forests November 28, 2022

Illustration of a Black woman looking out a window over a farm. In the distance, a rocket launches towards space.

Earthbound

To stay or go? The woman she loves, or the land she's nurtured? A farmer grapples with life, death, and love on a fire-worn planet.

Logan Dreher Climate Fiction August 14, 2024

A stretch of highway with snow and trees

Alaska is facing a massive mineral boom, but at what cost?

As the state begins looking beyond fossil fuels, mining companies are quietly preparing to take over its highways.

Lois Parshley Transportation July 26, 2023

Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US

Medical experts worry that extreme heat is exacting a rising and deadly toll on public health.

Zoya Teirstein Extreme Weather June 13, 2022

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The surprising player in the rail strike fight: Fossil fuel companies

The collaboration between coal, oil, and railroads goes back decades.

Blanca Begert Climate & Energy December 7, 2022

Man and two children walk on flooded road

Hurricane Fiona threatens Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery

Five years after Maria, another slow-moving storm "catches the island at the very worst moment."

Naveena Sadasivam Extreme Weather September 19, 2022

A row of green plants intersects a row of blooming trees with white flowers.

A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

“Complex landscape structures" on farms could create microclimates with lower temperatures that aid bees, birds, and plants.

Lela Nargi, The Food & Environment Reporting Network Agriculture March 5, 2023

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