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New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.
Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?
Democrats won big in last year’s election. This year, they’re aiming to win a majority on the commission.
The state’s largest utility was already expanding power plants to serve data centers.
The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.
As the U.S. and Europe slash their development funding, Chinese president Xi Jinping vowed that his country “will not slow down its climate actions.”
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
Labor organizers, environmental advocates, and economists all agree: This is a bad idea.
Even trace amounts of the toxic metal can cause learning problems and behavioral issues in children.
