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The shipping industry is responsible for 3 percent of global climate emissions. The Trump administration and the Iran war are complicating efforts to clean it up.
As a fight over voting districts consumes the Texas legislature, funding for flood relief remains elusive.
“Something is wrong with the system.”
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.
Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and perfectly safe for constructing tall buildings.
The ruling could allow federal agencies to skip climate analysis when approving major projects — with wide-reaching consequences.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
Most were Black or Indigenous.
