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This Electric Three-Wheeler Brings Greener Delivery Options
In June, the electric bike startup Joco, which rents e-bikes to food delivery workers and other couriers in New York City…
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Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the…
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The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs
The best gossip you’re likely to hear in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, is about water. Last month, when a few…
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As Housing Costs Soar, A Revolution In Affordable Homes
Homes of the future: 22 million Americans live in factory-built homes, an increasing number of them … [+] energy-efficient with…
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West Texas farmers and ranchers fear the worst as drought, heat near 2011 records
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G-7 Leaders Favour LNG Investment In U-Turn Due To Energy Crisis
(Bloomberg) — Investments in liquefied natural gas — already booming as Europe seeks to cut its energy dependence on Russia…
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A year on from Greek wildfires, locals are skeptical lessons have been learned
Press play to listen to this article ISTIAIA, Greece — The intense odor of scorched land still hangs in the…
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Can degrowth stop climate change and end poverty? | DW | 28.06.2022
It is one of the most daunting tasks humanity faces: stopping climate change and ending poverty at the same time. But…
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Germany Invites India To G-7 In Bid To Isolate Russia’s Putin
(Bloomberg) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a Group of Seven leaders’ summit next month…
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Sony’s Next Big Thing In Tech Is Helping Honda Take On Tesla
(Bloomberg) — In early 2020, Sony Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenichiro Yoshida took the stage at the Consumer Electronics…
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Exxon Mobil CEO cautions against an abrupt energy transition, warning underinvestment leads to high gas prices
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods warns that an abrupt transition to renewable energy will cause society to “pay a high…
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What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic
Shapiro’s Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low…
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Offshore wind boosted as Biden, East Coast governors team up
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is launching a formal partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing…
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Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years
Heat trapping carbon dioxide emissions from making cement, a less talked about but major source of carbon pollution, have doubled…
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The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate
And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the…
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Biodiversity Loss May Push Developing World Closer To Default
(Bloomberg) — Loss of biodiversity across the world may push many developing nations close to default and trigger massive downgrades…
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Russia Should Pay for Its Environmental War Crimes
As Russian bombs and bullets have shattered buildings and ended lives, Ukrainian scientists have scrambled to catalog the war’s effects…
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Hydrogen Startup Raises $198 Million For Plants To Produce Green Fuel
(Bloomberg) — A startup aiming to slash the cost of green hydrogen by offering pre-designed manufacturing facilities raised $198 million in…
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Canada is banning single-use plastics, including grocery bags and straws
Restaurants and grocery stores worry about a supply of alternative products as the government announces details of its ban on…
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This Year’s Extreme Weather Is Just Getting Started
What’s unusual is that the current La Niña event has lasted for two winters now and may even continue into…
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Officials try to deliver aid to flooded South Asia villages
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in India and Bangladesh struggled Monday to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of…
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Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat
PHOENIX (AP) — Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun’s searing rays in downtown Phoenix,…
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How much do food miles matter and should you buy local produce?
Despite a study claiming that food-mile emissions are higher than previously thought, eating less animal produce remains much more important…
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Peter Dykstra: Low crimes and misdemeanors
When Ronald Reagan swept into office in a 1980 landslide, he appointed two contentious figures to run his primary environment…
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The Investors Putting Billions Into Climate Tech Don’t Plan To Stop Now
Bill Gates is worried about a dark period ahead for the global economy. “We’re going to go through a winter…
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China Reduced Air Pollution In 7 Years As Much As US Did In Three Decades
(Bloomberg) — China has reduced air pollution nearly as much in seven years as the US did in three decades,…
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Latino activism leads in grassroot efforts on climate change
PHOENIX (AP) — Students at a largely Hispanic elementary school in Phoenix have long lined up for morning classes on…
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How a battery shortage is hampering the U.S. switch to wind, solar power
Siemens wind turbines operate on a wind farm in Marshalltown, Iowa. Timothy Fadek | Corbis News | Getty Images U.S.…
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Climate-driven flooding poses well water contamination risks
ST. LOUIS (AP) — After a record-setting Midwestern rainstorm that damaged thousands of homes and businesses, Stefanie Johnson’s farmhouse in…
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Poland’s PM pushes for more coal to lower heating costs
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister vowed Thursday to support higher production at the nation’s coal mines in order…
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The Leading Edge: What Inuit Can Teach Us About Climate Monitoring And Adaptation
Joel Heath, creator of SIKU: The Indigenous Knowledge Social Network Arctic Eider Society How can we all get smarter about…
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Biden orders emergency steps to boost U.S. solar production
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared…
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The Next Challenge for Solid-State Batteries? Making Lots of Them
Lithium offers other kinds of trouble. Over time, and especially when the battery is forced to charge up fast, lithium…
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Smaller Reactors May Still Have a Big Nuclear Waste Problem
Lindsay Krall decided to study nuclear waste out of a love for the arcane. Figuring how to bury radioactive atoms…
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As natural gas expands in Gulf, residents fear rising damage
LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana (AP) — The front lawn of Lydia Larce’s home is strewn with debris: remnants of cabinets and…
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Why climate change often hits women harder than men | DW | 30.05.2022
A cyclone that ripped through low-lying fishing communities. A wildfire that turned the sky red with embers and black with…
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Giant Deep Ocean Turbine Trial Offers Hope of Endless Green Power
(Bloomberg) — Power-hungry, fossil-fuel dependent Japan has successfully tested a system that could provide a constant, steady form of renewable…
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Climate change big threat to Stone Age art
MARSEILLE: To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists…
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Germany: G-7 nations can lead the way on ending coal use
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s energy and climate minister said Thursday that the Group of Seven wealthy nations can lead the…
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Ford Beats Tesla To The Punch With First Electric F-150 Delivery
(Bloomberg) — In the rural Michigan community Nicholas Schmidt lives, pickup trucks are a way of life. On Thursday, Schmidt and the…
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Courts Are Not A Weapon: How Corporations Like Chevron Use The Law To Get Their Way
In 2008, I attended Chevron’s CVX annual meeting in Richmond, California, alongside indigenous activists from Ecuador concerned about their ownership…
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India Heat Wave Drives Temperature Gap Between Rich and Poor
(Bloomberg) — India’s record-breaking heat wave is hitting some poorer, urban neighborhoods harder than more leafy, affluent ones. Temperatures in…
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Feed the World? India Has a Chapati Crisis Brewing at Home
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The only thing India can possibly do during this year’s global food crisis is to not make…
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These Tiny Organisms Are Key to Stopping The Next Pandemic
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — When a respiratory virus sweeps away almost 15 million lives in two years, as Covid-19 has, according…
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The Wetlands Are Drowning
Schoenoplectus americanus, or the chairmaker’s bulrush, is a common wetland plant in the Americas, and it has an existential problem.…
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Australia votes for stronger climate action in ‘greenslide’ election
Voters chose to decisively kick out the pro-coal Coalition government in favour of candidates that support stronger action on climate…
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A Hot, Deadly Summer Is Coming With Frequent Blackouts
(Bloomberg) — Global power grids are about to face their biggest test in decades with electricity generation strangled in the…
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How gas interests slowed Chile’s clean energy transition
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chile holds itself out as a global leader on climate change. Nearly 22% of Chile’s…
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How inflation could help us save money — and the planet
Inflation has many Americans worrying — a jump in prices of groceries and gas means paying more for fewer items,…
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Carbon pollution pushed environmental breakdown to record levels in 2021 | DW | 18.05.2022
Humanity has clogged the atmosphere with so much heat-trapping gas that four critical measures of the health of the planet…
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