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Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
Plastic straws used to be “environment enemy number one.”
"Earth Overshoot Day" reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior.
From breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for balcony solar — yet.
Ecuador’s Socio Bosque project has been key to safeguarding the rainforest. Now, the country’s state-owned oil company is exploiting its many loopholes.
At COP29, a decade-long effort to realize the ambitions of the Paris Agreement could give the world a way to measure the success of climate adaptation.
Organized labor has a plan for how to keep New England’s renewable energy momentum going.
It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps farmers save on energy and install solar.
Two Chicago-area institutions teamed up to develop a solid-state battery that packs a huge energy punch—one that could eventually even power airplanes.
