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After months and months of organizing by community activists and landowners, Byhalia Connection LLC announced it is scrapping plans to build a 49-mile crude oil pipeline through Tennessee and Mississippi.
“Climate change will impact all governments, industries, and individuals. Housing and housing finance will not be spared.”
For the first time, the IPCC recognized what a warming world means for anxiety, trauma, and suicide.
Struggling with depression and on leave from his corporate job, Olatunji Oboi Reed decided to get his bike out of the basement. That ride set him on a new path that led to his current work, promoting racial equity in transportation and beyond.
A Shell refinery in the heart of “Cancer Alley” has been polluting excessively since the storm passed.
The decision marks a milestone in an ongoing debate over the role of natural gas in net-zero plans.
You’ve probably heard of permafrost, the frozen carbon-rich land. But it’s also thawing under the sea, burping up planet-warming gases.
A thirsty megafarm is driving a libertarian enclave in Arizona to embrace a radical solution: government regulation.
As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing.
