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A massive water recycling proposal could help ease drought
Members of Congress from Western states are pushing for $750 million to turn wastewater into pure water. Here’s how that works.
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The US wants to make EV batteries without these foreign metals. Should it?
Nickel and cobalt have precarious international supply chains, but eliminating them from batteries raises tough questions.
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Bo Burnham is not joking about the climate apocalypse
“The planet’s heating up. What the f*** is going on?”
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Think climate change isn’t ‘click-worthy’? These bots disagree.
Two artists and their army of ad-clicking bots are taking a stand.
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Electronic waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons
"It is a reduction, though it is not good for the world."
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The Department of Energy is trying to make clean hydrogen this generation’s ‘moonshot’
New "Energy Earthshots" initiative aims to make clean hydrogen cheap.
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Stripe injects cash into 6 more carbon removal projects
Growing kelp, crushing rocks, zapping seawater — what's next?
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The plan to turn coal country into a rare earth powerhouse
With plans for a Made-in-America renewable energy transformation, Biden administration ramps up efforts to extract rare earth minerals from coal waste.
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Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK
A major $42.5 million project will test trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal as ways of removing climate-heating emissions.
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Unpacking the fight to save coal in Wyoming’s ‘Carbon Valley’
Wyoming is gambling on carbon capture. A new podcast series asks: Will it work?
