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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.
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Why the slowest EV chargers may be the fastest way to get people into EVs
Apartments need EV charging. Supporters of trickle-slow “Level 1” chargers argue that access is more important than speed.
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![Volunteers harvest fruit from native plants in a roundabout]()
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Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.
In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.
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![A construction worker in Los Angeles takes a break from repaving a road to drink directly from a water cooler as temperatures top 100 degrees.]()
![A construction worker in Los Angeles takes a break from repaving a road to drink directly from a water cooler as temperatures top 100 degrees.]()
As summers grow ever hotter, OSHA appears ready to protect workers
Many in the construction and agriculture industries are opposed, but new research shows it would help them, too.
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Good health depends on a stable climate. This fellowship teaches health professionals how to advocate for both.
A training program led by Harvard offers community organizing skills to clinicians interested in climate action.
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![An aerial view of the Central Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project, an aquifer recharge project that has helped restore Tucson's depleted groundwater.]()
![An aerial view of the Central Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project, an aquifer recharge project that has helped restore Tucson's depleted groundwater.]()
Groundwater levels are falling worldwide — but there are solutions
New research shows how to protect the aquifers that hold most of the world’s fresh water.
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Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds
“The bottom line is that plastic bag bans work.”
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![Illustration looking down on a table set for a traditional Passover seder with people seated around it. A shadow at the edge of the illustration indicates someone is about to enter the room.]()
![Illustration looking down on a table set for a traditional Passover seder with people seated around it. A shadow at the edge of the illustration indicates someone is about to enter the room.]()
A Seder in Siberia
The arrival of a surprise visitor at a family’s Passover celebration reveals the true story of how they came to be climate exiles.
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A decades-long battle against North Carolina’s largest landfill is ramping up
“There is not a house in this community that has not had a person who has suffered from some type of cancer or kidney failure.”
