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When President Trump signed a $1.4 trillion spending package in December to keep the government funded through 2020, there was a climate policy milestone buried in the budget. For the first time ever, the government allocated funding for a federal agency to conduct geoengineering research.
read moreA group of Barclays (BARC.L) shareholders coordinated by responsible investment lobby group ShareAction want the bank to phase out financing fossil fuels, stepping up pressure on one of Europe’s biggest funders of the sector.
read moreNew data is out on America’s greenhouse gas emissions, and there’s good news and bad for the climate.
read moreWith waters rising around them, Pacific Islanders are marrying Space Age technology with ancestral wisdom.
read moreCOCODRIE, La. — A marine laboratory 85 miles southwest of New Orleans was designed to be a fortress against extreme weather. But it might be defeated by climate change.
read moreA government campaign to plant more trees has sparked a negative response from the indigenous communities of India.
read moreFive Gen-Zers crouched around a small pile of trash in the center of Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut in the early November sun.
read moreSeeking to do their part to avert climate change, dozens of cities are exploring ways to limit natural gas heating in new homes. One city may also require existing homeowners to make a switch.
read moreThe EPA’s own Science Advisory Board (SAB)—two-thirds of which was appointed by the Trump administration—is the latest group of scientists to come out swinging against a proposal to restrict the use of science in agency decisions.
read moreDetails are emerging for what this ‘moon shot’ federal program merging climate, jobs and economic security might look like. It’s a powerful force already.
read moreIt’s Thursday, January 2, and Nevadans are getting the largest solar farm in the U.S.
read moreOne of the best things you can do for your health is to cut back on foods with added sugar. Our 7-Day Sugar Challenge will show you how.
read moreAt the instigation of architect Ed Mazria, last week’s conference traced how carbon becomes operationalized in the built environment.
read morePractitioners have finally begun taking a more nuanced approach to the carbon emitted by new buildings. Are they too late?
read moreThe energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.
read moreGreta previously did not eat or talk to people because of her depression, her father reveals in a new interview
read moreThe country’s east coast was dotted with apocalyptic scenes on the last day of the warmest decade on record in Australia.
read moreAnd 6 other disturbing numbers that show just how bad the climate change crisis has gotten.
read moreNearly 1,100 scientists, practitioners and experts in groundwater and related fields from 92 countries have called on the governments and non-governmental organizations to “act now” to ensure global groundwater sustainability.
read moreThese are the items I’d buy again because they’re well made and make our world a better, cleaner place.
read moreHere’s what the major fossil fuel companies are committing to do on climate change, and how that falls far short of what’s needed.
read moreIt was another year in which natural disasters occurred with unnatural force and frequency: Mozambique was submerged by two deadly cyclones, some of its worst storms of record; Japan, Australia, and the southern U.S. sizzled in heat waves; and even the Arctic was on fire.
read morePermanent protections for free-flowing rivers need to be a centerpiece of every country’s national climate action plan. Chile can lead the way.
read moreThe galvanizing force of garbage piling up in the streets.
read moreIt has been two years since severe drought forced twenty nine-year old Amena and her four children to leave their village Petaw Qol in Waras. Now, they reside in Bamyan city.
read moreLouisiana still hasn’t finished investigating 540 oil spills after Hurricane Katrina. The state is likely leaving millions of dollars in remediation fines on the table — money that environmental groups say they need as storms get stronger.
read moreA decade of ice, ocean and atmospheric studies found systems nearing dangerous tipping points. As the evidence mounted, countries worldwide began to see the risk.
read moreThe Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable.
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