The fastest-growing plant on Earth can be turned into biocrude with almost no waste. A new study finds it emits 26 times less carbon than petroleum diesel.
Solutions
Global warming is making the El Niño weather pattern stronger, and that’s prolonging a devastating drought across a region of Central America known as the Dry Corridor.
California’s landmark 2006 climate law helped the state meet its first emissions target six years early, but upcoming goals are harder to reach.
Connecticut residents can install some plug-in solar without notifying their utility, but safety codes have yet to catch up with the new devices.
As Britain pursues a “golden age” of nuclear power, it faces the industry’s endemic time and cost overruns.
The Nature Conservancy is flooding portions of a delta island to slow land subsidence and create habitat for wildlife.
Massachusetts officials have delayed or withheld the release of three taxpayer-funded studies examining the costs of transitioning to clean energy.
Beaver dams slow moving water in a way that promotes localized year-round availability, creates habitat for native fish, and provides a natural break that slows wildfires.
Deforestation fell almost 42% in a year, but a possible change in president could reverse the trend.
Only 12% of all air pollution deaths globally occur in sub-Saharan Africa, but over half of all child related air pollution deaths occur on the continent.
Some of the ousted climate scientists have just published their own research paper, identifying changes in the research field.
As climate change brings hotter temperatures, worsening droughts and increasingly unreliable water supplies to the American West, Colorado farmers are turning to ancient grains and heirloom crops that require less water and can withstand harsh growing conditions.
The Indigenous Earth Fund recently awarded $1 million to Native-led projects that aim to restore the planet.
Companies market wood pellets and hog biogas as climate solutions. Critics say neighbors are exposed to health risks and quality-of-life issues.
Enfield, North Carolina mayor Mondale Robinson announced the group’s launch in September, saying that small towns, often overlooked, will have more power if they work together.
Employment in the sector dipped in Donald Trump’s first year back in office — and many more expected jobs won’t materialize thanks to canceled clean energy projects.
The Trump administration has officially filed a request to reconsider the construction permit it issued to an offshore wind project proposed off the coast of Ocean City.
Americans are suffering under an affordability crisis, while the climate crisis is making life more expensive. Both require urgent action — and both can be addressed simultaneously.
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