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The new guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions.
The administration’s efforts to solve a so-called “energy emergency” might create an actual crisis.
A new report calls for solutions that simultaneously address climate change, biodiversity, health, water, and food issues.
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: Build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
The heat bearing down on central Alaska "could feel like 110" in a state where the sun can shine all day.
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.