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In Norway, the electric vehicle future has already arrived
About 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway are battery-powered. As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed. But problems with unreliable chargers persist.
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The giving forest, and a tribe’s sustainable logging practices
The Menominee tribe has sustainably logged its forest in Wisconsin for 160 years. But that careful balance faces a crisis: too many trees and too few loggers.
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In Ohio, electric cars are starting to reshape jobs and companies
The state, heavily dependent on the auto industry, is a case study in whether electric vehicles will create or destroy jobs.
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As oil companies stay lean, workers move to renewable energy
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Can a nation replace its oil wealth with trees?
Gabon knows its oil won’t last forever, so officials are turning to the Central African nation’s rainforest for revenue — while also promising to preserve it.
The new laws trying to take the anxiety out of shopping
Fashion can’t stop talking about sustainability. Now it may have to put more money where its mouth is, as regulators set their sights on the industry.
How New Zealand’s climate fight is threatening its iconic farmland
As New Zealand puts a growing price on greenhouse emissions, investors are rushing to buy up pastures and plant carbon-sucking trees.
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