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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.
The country’s incoming president made water her “main concern” when she was mayor of Mexico City.
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 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.
The newsroom worked with partners to host listening sessions, and will create online and printed resources and launch a paid journalism training program.
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.