As the United States sizzled through heat waves, the government removed some of its most actionable advice about how to conserve energy.
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As connection queues grow, data center companies propose to build out their own power, with many of them eyeing natural gas turbines.
For now, the state is counting on voluntary cuts among vegetable and pecan farmers. But that might not be enough.
And what people just like you are doing about it.
A major cement manufacturer has been allowed to burn more plastic waste for fuel at its Adelaide site in a decision a local council is seeking to challenge in court.
The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land.
The administration has allocated $2.7 billion to stymie wind and solar, while backing fossil fuels and nuclear.
Big business made big promises about saving the planet. Following through hasn’t been easy.
The U.S. federal government is increasingly failing to provide local communities assistance after climate change fueled disasters.
A National Academy of Sciences report on extreme climate event attribution confronts political climate denialism with scientific evidence.
In a first, the state could speed up data centers’ grid connection if they bankroll energy-saving residential tech like heat pumps and batteries.
Trump just put a climate denier in charge of overseeing a key report.
A team in Barcelona has developed a platform that forecasts how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100.
A global shift to mostly plant-based diets with minimal processed foods and red meat, coupled with a large decrease in food waste, would decrease greenhouse gas emissions by more than 85% by 2050 compared to 2020 agricultural emissions, according to a new study.
Calling it “biogenic methane” is a red flag for climate scientists.
The state will tax data center electricity but plans to reduce emissions at the facilities and secure environmental protections went nowhere.
Sky-high energy bills. Record-breaking wildfires. Air too toxic to breathe. Oregonians are already paying the price for pollution from large corporations, which is fueling climate disasters and extreme weather.
Developer Cypress Creek has broken ground on the project, which will eventually deliver 2.5 gigawatts of solar production and 2.9 gigawatt-hours of battery storage.
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