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ultra-efficient rooftop farm of the future
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The ultra-efficient farm of the future is in the sky

Take a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy.
Resilience
rurbanization brings agriculture into cities
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Rurbanization: It’s time to make cities more rural

Enough with the urban vs. rural binary. When rurbanization brings agriculture into cities, everyone benefits.
Politics
Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore
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Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore

Urban farms spring up in space-starved city-state as part of a drive to produce more food locally and reduce a heavy reliance on imports.

Solutions
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: A vision of what 2050 will look like if we fight climate change

Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: A vision of what 2050 will look like if we fight climate change

In a new book, ‘The Future We Choose,’ two of the negotiators of the Paris climate agreement envision the future we could live in if the world comes together to fight climate change.
Solutions
Burwood Brickworks mall is the model for green building

Burwood Brickworks mall is the model for green building

Malls are struggling, but this one at least has a rooftop farm, renewable energy generation, and wastewater recycling—and should be a model for how buildings can be designed for a sustainable future.
Impacts
This massive new rooftop farm helps keep Bangkok from flooding
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This massive new rooftop farm helps keep Bangkok from flooding

The 236,000-square-foot roof can store as much as 3 million gallons of water. It’s the largest rooftop farm in Asia.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
Yellow diesel truck on highway during daytime under partly cloudy skies.

House votes to block California truck emission rules, challenging legal norms

A factory complex emits pollutioni through several smokestacks with hazy skies in background.

US Senate votes to ease regulations on toxic air pollution from industry

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Mass exodus of senior staff reshapes federal energy and environmental agencies under Trump

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Regenerative agriculture drought resilience

As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

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Nuclear revival plan faces obstacles at Tennessee Valley Authority

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

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Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

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Opinion: How leadership shapes our choices on climate change