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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.
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.
A new report calls for solutions that simultaneously address climate change, biodiversity, health, water, and food issues.
The heat bearing down on central Alaska "could feel like 110" in a state where the sun can shine all day.
The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
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.