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Biomass power surge in Indonesia threatens tropical forests

Expanding deforestation in Indonesia caused by the country’s wood pellet and chip industry is putting further pressure on tropical forests, Key Biodiversity Areas, and Indigenous territories in the archipelago.

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America’s houseplants come at a steep price for greenhouse workers

The people who grow houseplants aren't often thought of as agricultural workers, but they face many of the same hardships — especially in extreme heat.
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Jet fuel in the water

This week, co-host Jake Bolster and reporters Marianne Lavelle and Liza Gross discuss the polluting power of fossil fuels and how they are harming two communities in very different ways.
An aerial view of a residential area in Hawaii with inlets and a marina

Battered by storms, Hawai‘i communities search for more resilient solutions

“It’s a sign of the times,” Maui County Council Member Tamara Paltin said. “Everything is kind of cyclical, but I think the Earth is going through just a transition. It’s always changing, but this change is just harder for our built environments and humans to deal with.”

Rusted and abandoned oil pumps with grass growing around it against sunset.

U.S. EPA to weaken rules on methane pollution from “stripper wells”

The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that will drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained, and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.

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Rhode Island Energy looks to a Maine onshore wind farm to boost renewable electricity supply

A tentative contract announced by Rhode Island Energy would bring 150 megawatts of renewable electricity to the state via an onshore wind farm planned in northern Maine.

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A federal judge just told Trump there's no ‘emergency' to justify keeping a Michigan coal plant open

It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda.
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Wildfires and permafrost melt in Canada are causing even more climate change, new study shows

These climate feedback loops, where climate change triggers more greenhouse gas emissions that in turn feed into even more climate change, could add 20 to 30 percent more warming over current estimates for this century.

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Corals as climate archive: Are El Ninos intensifying?

Records from the past few decades show that, during this period, El Nino events have been frequent and often extreme. But is this normal, or is it the result of climate change? Corals can give us a clear indication.
Log landing in Asian rainforest indicative of deforestion in Indonesia

Biomass power surge in Indonesia threatens tropical forests

Expanding deforestation in Indonesia caused by the country’s wood pellet and chip industry is putting further pressure on tropical forests, Key Biodiversity Areas, and Indigenous territories in the archipelago, according to a new satellite analysis.

Coal plant with four smokestacks emitting pollution.

E.P.A. will erase limits on climate pollution from power plants

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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