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![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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Meet the scientists behind the ice sanctuary — a memory vault for dying glaciers
Glacial ice contains valuable data about climates past. These researchers are working to preserve those records for the future.
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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.
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![Collage of two speech bubbles containing earth, one marked up with proofreading symbols]()
Is there a wrong way to talk about climate change?
In a provocative new book, Genevieve Guenther argues that too many conversations are happening on the fossil fuel industry's terms.
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The surprisingly simple way cities could save people from extreme heat
Cool roofs reflect sunlight and reduce the urban heat island effect.
