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The EV of the future has three wheels

The auto rickshaw is more or less a motorcycle in the front and a party in the back in the form of benches, seats, or cargo space, and they are electrifying faster than basically any other type of vehicle.

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Bring on the boring EVs

The next step toward electric cars just becoming cars is playing out on your TV screen.
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Democrats are sleepwalking toward climate disaster

The party doesn’t even seem to realize that it’s blowing a once-in-a-decade chance to pass meaningful climate legislation.
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'Solar geoengineering' could make malaria even worse

A popular idea to soften the blow of global warming might also make the world’s malaria problem even worse.
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www.theatlantic.com

How climate change helped fuel the U.S. lumber shortage

Bitcoin? Blasé. Gold? Going out of style. "The hottest commodity on the planet," according to Dustin Jalbert, an economist at the market-research firm Fastmarkets, is lumber.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
The Magdalena River in Colombia with a small tour boat on its banks and a sunset and trees in background.

Colombia’s largest oil company accused of hiding environmental damage

Illuminated bridge at dusk in Alexandria Egypt

Alexandria's fishing families stay put as seas rise around them

Two Indigenous South American children.

Ecuador must expand protections for isolated Indigenous groups after court ruling

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Volunteers scramble to rescue federal environmental data as Trump administration pulls it offline

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Melting glaciers put global food and water systems at risk