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Regulators loosen California’s new rule to require residential rooftop solar

California regulators eased off the state's groundbreaking new law allowing developers to use a Sacramento utility's off-site solar installations instead.

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Congressional Democrats join the debate over plastics' booming future

A new bill would impose a three-year moratorium on new plant construction in parts of Appalachia and the Gulf Coast.

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Is this stormy sea a climate friend or foe?

Peter Landschützer is at the forefront of research into how the remote, carbon-absorbing Southern Ocean affects Earth’s climate.

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How can Jeff Bezos spend $10 billion fighting climate change? We have a few ideas

His Earth Fund should invest in these green technologies.

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Mike Bloomberg tries to talk up climate change during an otherwise brutal Nevada Democratic debate

Some green groups aren't impressed with him.

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Climate-change activists say you can’t fight global warming through individual actions. They’re wrong

Buying hybrids convinces other people to buy them — a dynamic that can save the planet

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Declining snowpack due to climate change has cut the Colorado River’s annual flow by 10 percent, study finds

About 40 million Americans across the West depend on water from the Colorado River, which supports $1 trillion in economic activity each year.

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Nevada, South Carolina and other primary voters say climate change is a top concern

“We can’t just say we’ll let another generation deal with it,” says one South Carolina voter.

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‘Like an umbrella had covered the sky': Locust swarms despoil Kenya

At first, villagers thought the dark, dense blot in the sky was a harmless cloud. Then came the terrifying realization that the locusts had arrived.

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A disaster video that finally tells the truth about climate change

The world is indifferent to our fate.

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Climate change rises as a public priority. But it's more partisan than ever

Protecting the environment and tackling climate change have climbed up the list of Americans’ political priorities, but there are startling differences between members of different parties.

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