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A challenge for cities: going green, without gentrification

Community displacement has emerged as an unintended cost of climate resilience efforts. Here’s how cities can boost both livability and equity.

Politics

Italian EV startup takes on US, Chinese rivals with design

Elon Musk's Tesla paved the way nearly two decades ago. Now, the global transition to fully electric vehicles is littered with startups, inspired by a new era in mobility and drawn by the lower cost of building EVs compared with their fossil-fuel-guzzling forbears.

Newsletter

'A tree for each citizen': Forestami is trying to plant 3 million trees in Milan

An urban reforestation project in Milan is attempting to plant 3 million trees in the northern Italian city, roughly equating to the population of the city's metropolitan area.

Politics

Energy crisis key to Italy's election — but not conservation

Giambarini Group’s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron parts super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as natural gas prices spike .

Politics

This play is touring Europe. But no one's going anywhere

How can theaters adapt to prevent climate change? The British director Katie Mitchell and a Swiss playhouse have developed a new model for taking a production on the road.

Solutions

Italy's push to create greener cities led to $5 billion in fraud

Generous government incentives were snapped up by scammers and may have created a construction bubble.

Politics

Milan plans bike lane infrastructure to rival Paris

Italy’s most populous metro area will build hundreds of kilometers of protected cycling lanes to ward off worsening pollution from cars and trucks.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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A challenge for cities: going green, without gentrification

Italian EV startup takes on US, Chinese rivals with design

'A tree for each citizen': Forestami is trying to plant 3 million trees in Milan

Energy crisis key to Italy's election — but not conservation

This play is touring Europe. But no one's going anywhere

Italy's push to create greener cities led to $5 billion in fraud

Milan plans bike lane infrastructure to rival Paris

Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs