01 January 2019

Climate change 2018: The news wasn’t actually all bad

Three big trends are helping us address the climate crisis: better technology, cheaper technology, and more ambitious policies.

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Paris Agreement 10 years on: More wins than you may realize

Global emissions continue to rise a decade after the Paris Agreement. However, solar, wind and EV growth demonstrate that climate action can work. Here's what has been achieved and what remains urgent.

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An oil company running into rough waters off the California coast is looking to Trump for help

A vote to deny Sable Offshore permits to restart production builds on a series of lawsuits and an accusation of insider trading, but the CEO wants the president to help it overcome its setbacks.

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Property battles could slow Trump’s pipeline ‘tsunami’

Resistance from landowners is visible across the country as companies pursue new oil, gas and carbon projects.

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There’s a new forecast for peak oil demand. It’s increasingly cloudy.

The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.

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Why Appalachia is one of the world’s worst hotspots for dangerous floods

A Washington Post investigation shows why one region of the United States is increasingly vulnerable to extreme rainfall and floods.

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States that rely on the Colorado River miss deadline to agree on cuts

A plan to sustainably manage the shrinking waterway could soon be up to the Trump administration — or eventually the Supreme Court.

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If the US has to build data centers, here’s where they should go

A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.

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