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Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold
America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
Poison at play: Unsafe lead levels found in half of New Orleans playgrounds
Even trace amounts of the toxic metal can cause learning problems and behavioral issues in children.
It just got harder for shareholders to push companies on climate
New SEC restrictions could sideline the small shareholders who have driven high-profile climate fights in recent years.
The Olympics just saw its first ‘forever chemical’ disqualifications
Waxes containing PFAS are banned at the Milan-Cortina Games. Three athletes already have been disqualified for using them.
Trump just killed the EPA’s ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.
The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court.
Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won’t lower prices
There’s no two ways about it: Eating more beef is bad for the planet and the climate.
Growing evidence points to link between autism and wildfire smoke
Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in young children.
Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
Utilities in the Southeast may be overestimating the AI boom
Power companies are already building more costly fossil fuel infrastructure than data centers may actually need.
Data centers are scrambling to power the AI boom with natural gas
As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.
Geothermal could replace almost half of the EU’s fossil fuel power
Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice
Inside the historic effort to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.
Billie Eilish, stolen land, and the climate cost of America’s dispossession
Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.
The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?
How Britain's new "green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.
The US lost $35B in clean energy projects last year
A new report indicates that Trump administration policies led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.
What happens when a neighborhood is built around a farm
Agrihoods reimagine urban living by putting food, not cars, at the center of the community.
The US government says it is falling short on its legal duties to tribal nations
A new government report finds that federal agencies are unprepared to expand shared stewardship with tribes as climate pressures intensify.
The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers
After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
Vegan fine dining had a moment. Now it’s over.
As high-end restaurants reintroduce meat, young vegan cooks are figuring out what’s next.
Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in Alaskan waters
“It really feels like another false solution.”
Inside the polarizing plan to stash carbon in a California wetland
A proposal to store carbon dioxide deep below a Bay Area wetland is testing how — and where — California pursues climate solutions.
The US doesn’t need to generate as much new electricity as you think
Load shifting and improving energy efficiency could reduce the need for new power plants, but utilities often profit more from building than saving power.
Japan’s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining
Japan is spending five weeks mining the seafloor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk.
Why the future of meat production is in vats, not farms
“Cultivated” offerings join a herd of alternative meats that are challenging the traditional ways of raising livestock.