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![Illustration of LNG tanker from the shore]()
![Illustration of LNG tanker from the shore]()
How this organizer is fighting the liquefied natural gas industry where she lives
The Biden administration's LNG pause won't affect projects planned in Brownsville, Texas. The community is still waging its own defense.
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![Collage of the state of Georgia with power lines and cooling towers]()
Your guide to electricity and energy policy in Georgia
From rate case to rooftop, a glossary for understanding how public service commissions work.
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Under pressure from activist investors, big brands agree to report and reduce plastics use
Shareholder advocacy groups have already won plastics-related concessions from companies including Disney, Hormel, and Choice Hotels.
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Israel’s campaign in Gaza is fueling demands to make ‘ecocide’ an international crime
The Hague can only prosecute four types of crimes. Ecocide could become the fifth.
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![A mural that reads Greetings from Historic Downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, with a painting of a river and forest.]()
![A mural that reads Greetings from Historic Downtown Grants Pass, Oregon, with a painting of a river and forest.]()
With limited resources, an Oregon town plans for climate change
Among rural communities, Grants Pass, Oregon, has notched an unlikely win: a sustainability plan. But lack of dedicated staff and resources to secure federal grant funds threaten its success.
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![Cutout of dark soil with cross sections filled with microbes, earthworms, and clouds against blue sky]()
![Cutout of dark soil with cross sections filled with microbes, earthworms, and clouds against blue sky]()
How much carbon can farmers store in their soil? Nobody’s sure.
Advocates say the long-awaited farm bill could help fix that.
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![Photo of a hurricane near western Mexico]()
Category 6-level hurricanes are already here, a new study says
But what would change if we added a number to the hurricane scale?
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![Houses and the governor's mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico]()
As states slash rooftop solar incentives, Puerto Rico extends them
A year after California gutted how much households are paid for excess solar power, Puerto Rico is preserving its net metering program to foster clean energy and resilience.
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![Construction crews move sand to build a sand motor on the coast of Benin, in West Africa. The country is facing rapid erosion as a result of sea level rise.]()
![Construction crews move sand to build a sand motor on the coast of Benin, in West Africa. The country is facing rapid erosion as a result of sea level rise.]()
Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast?
As sea levels rise, engineers are using massive Dutch-inspired sand sculptures to protect shorefront settlements.
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Slow down, do less: A Q&A with the author who introduced ‘degrowth’ to a mass audience
Kohei Saito talks four-day workweeks, private jet bans, and what we gain from reducing consumption.
