Climate Solutions
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![Photo of Senator Edmund Muskie at his desk with globe in background]()
![Photo of Senator Edmund Muskie at his desk with globe in background]()
The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
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![a collage of a person looking at a circle filled with a color rendering of the proposed city 'California Forever.' Outside of the circle, the landscape consists of dry fields and turbines]()
![a collage of a person looking at a circle filled with a color rendering of the proposed city 'California Forever.' Outside of the circle, the landscape consists of dry fields and turbines]()
Is it possible to build a dream city from scratch?
Sustainability is at the heart of California Forever’s ambitious plan for a new city — and its problems.
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![digital collage of a hand dropping seeds with palm trees on each side and cutouts of the Earth and green wheat stalks]()
![digital collage of a hand dropping seeds with palm trees on each side and cutouts of the Earth and green wheat stalks]()
How Octavia Butler’s 1993 book ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted our climate reality
Set in 2024, the sci-fi classic shows an America ravaged by climate change. Here's what the book got right — and what we can learn from it.
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![A woman stands in front of a classroom full of university students.]()
![A woman stands in front of a classroom full of university students.]()
How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change
Professors are increasingly combining classroom instruction with efforts to "green" campuses.
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![Heavy traffic and pedestrians are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York during a hazy day in July.]()
![Heavy traffic and pedestrians are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York during a hazy day in July.]()
Critics of congestion pricing often end up supporting it. Here’s why.
People often resist congestion pricing because they favor the status quo. But seeing benefits firsthand has led residents around the world to embrace it.
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![A straight-on view of packages of Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger products lining grocery store shelves]()
![A straight-on view of packages of Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger products lining grocery store shelves]()
Plant-based meat needs government support to scale up, but a culture war stands in the way
Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarizing?
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![A silver car is parked at an electric vehicle charging station in Atlanta, Georgia.]()
![A silver car is parked at an electric vehicle charging station in Atlanta, Georgia.]()
The people who control Georgia’s climate and energy plans
A power map of the appointed and elected officials who wield power over how the state manages clean energy, climate adaptation, policy, and investments.
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![hands hold dried coffee beans]()
![hands hold dried coffee beans]()
Inside a new experiment to find the climate-proof coffee of the future
An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew.
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![Heavy equipment buries tree logs in a freshly dug vault in a field]()
![Heavy equipment buries tree logs in a freshly dug vault in a field]()
‘Wood vaulting’: A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of
Forests throughout the West are overgrown and full of flammable vegetation, fueling wildfires and carbon emissions. Could burying it help solve the problem?
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![Clay-colored water floods land, with only tops of trees sticking up.]()
![Clay-colored water floods land, with only tops of trees sticking up.]()
Tribal lands in Oklahoma are 5 times more likely to flood than rest of state
When Indigenous peoples were forced off their lands, they were boxed into flood-prone areas.
