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![San Diego has shored up its water supplies by upgrading the All-American Canal, which takes Colorado River water to California's Imperial Valley.]()
![San Diego has shored up its water supplies by upgrading the All-American Canal, which takes Colorado River water to California's Imperial Valley.]()
A quiet revolution: Southwest cities learn to thrive amid drought
San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas have embraced innovative strategies for conserving and sourcing water, providing these metropolitan areas with sufficient water supplies to support their growing populations.
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Heat pumps do work in the cold — Americans just don’t know it yet
These heating/cooling systems have been called the "most overlooked climate solution." Now they can work in temperatures far below freezing.
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Tech companies are spending big to suck carbon from the atmosphere. Should the government, too?
State and federal lawmakers pitch spending billions to scale up a nascent industry with an uncertain business model.
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![Washington state license plate with "EV B4 2030" on it, and a metal frame with lightning bolts at the bottom]()
![Washington state license plate with "EV B4 2030" on it, and a metal frame with lightning bolts at the bottom]()
Ending the sale of gas cars by 2030 was a radical idea. What changed?
7 factors driving the switch to electric vehicles.
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![iPhone with cracked screen; top half is turning into square pixels that are floating off of the device]()
![iPhone with cracked screen; top half is turning into square pixels that are floating off of the device]()
Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.
Under pressure from shareholders, Big Tech is finally making device repair easier.
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![A Tesla showroom seen from the outside; red car and banner with Tesla logo visible through the windows]()
![A Tesla showroom seen from the outside; red car and banner with Tesla logo visible through the windows]()
Batteries are getting cheap. So why aren’t electric vehicles?
In 2015, the average price paid for an EV was around $36,000. Now, it's over $63,000.
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![Collage of Elon Musk next to a trophy with the XPRIZE logo on the base]()
![Collage of Elon Musk next to a trophy with the XPRIZE logo on the base]()
Elon Musk-funded carbon removal prize announces 15 ‘milestone’ winners
More than 1,000 teams have registered for the contest so far.
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The little-known open-source community behind the government’s new environmental justice tool
Inside the White House’s unpublicized experiment in open governance.
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![A truck drives past the receiving station for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on March 9, 2022 near Lubmin, Germany.]()
![A truck drives past the receiving station for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on March 9, 2022 near Lubmin, Germany.]()
‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out
As western governments untangle themselves from Russian oil and gas, Svitlana Krakovska argues that the roots of the climate crisis and invasion are in fossil fuels.
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How 5G could send weather forecasting back to the 1970s
Plans to expand wireless cellular networks could be bad news for atmospheric science.
