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![Closeup photo of a car getting pumped with gasoline]()
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Gasoline use isn’t falling fast enough. Targeting ‘superusers’ could help.
America may have hit “peak gasoline,” but the fossil fuel’s decline is still too slow to meet climate goals.
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![a large rock sits in a desert landscape near metal scaffolds]()
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Biden administration pauses copper mining project on Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site
The Arizona mine project won't move forward until more discussions with Indigenous communities.
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![A city employee tosses an assortment of plastic containers into a curbside recycling truck in Houston, Texas.]()
![A city employee tosses an assortment of plastic containers into a curbside recycling truck in Houston, Texas.]()
New research defends curbside recycling as an effective climate tool
The study finds that, despite their cost and other drawbacks, such programs can help small cities reach their climate goals.
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![Photo of dry, wilted sunflowers with dark clouds in the background]()
![Photo of dry, wilted sunflowers with dark clouds in the background]()
It’s near certain that the next 5 years will be the hottest yet
El Niño may push global temperatures past 1.5C, the World Meteorological Organization warned.
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![A tractor approaches garden waste at a compost center in England]()
![A tractor approaches garden waste at a compost center in England]()
A simple way to prevent heaps of methane pollution: Composting
A new study says the practice could slash landfill emissions by as much as 84 percent.
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Washington state now has the nation’s strongest law against toxic cosmetics
The legislation targets harmful chemicals that are often found in products marketed to women of color.
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![East of Hazar, Turkmenistan, a port city on the Caspian Sea, 12 plumes of methane stream westward. The plumes were detected by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission and some of them stretch for more than 20 miles (32 kilometers)]()
![East of Hazar, Turkmenistan, a port city on the Caspian Sea, 12 plumes of methane stream westward. The plumes were detected by NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission and some of them stretch for more than 20 miles (32 kilometers)]()
Turkmenistan’s ‘mind-boggling’ methane emissions revealed by satellite data
Experts say leaks of the potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, and would rapidly reduce global heating.
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![A man with a bun and a black hoodie installs a heat pump on the side of a gray house.]()
![A man with a bun and a black hoodie installs a heat pump on the side of a gray house.]()
Airbnb will help some hosts pay for new heat pumps
A pilot program in Massachusetts will give Airbnb vacation-rental owners $2,500 to install air-source heat pumps and make their properties more energy-efficient.
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![Two workers survey land cleared for the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which will run from Quebec through Maine.]()
![Two workers survey land cleared for the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which will run from Quebec through Maine.]()
Maine court recharges plan for embattled transmission line
The new wires will help wean New England off fuel oil and natural gas.
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![digital collage of paper mill and buildings with river and billboard set against background of mountains]()
![digital collage of paper mill and buildings with river and billboard set against background of mountains]()
As one Southern community mourns a paper mill’s closure, another rejoices
On the Pigeon River, one town celebrates a paper mill's closure as another mourns — and both face an uncertain future.
