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How smart trailers could give trucking a clean, electrified boost

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How smart trailers could give trucking a clean, electrified boost

How an innovative battery system in the Bronx will help charge up NYC’s grid

How an innovative battery system in the Bronx will help charge up NYC’s grid

People stand in front of a courthouse holding up a large banner reading #ExxonKnew

4 ways Exxon predicted climate change, but still denied it

Well water from Red Hill Navy fuel facility being pumped out through pipes into the Halawa Stream surrounded by pink and white graffiti

What will it take to save Oahu’s freshwater from the Red Hill fuel leak?

Hands of a couple wearing engagement and wedding rings.

From labs to lookalikes: what you need to know about ‘sustainable’ diamonds

By Sara Kiley Watson

Man Standing on Rocky Mountain Under White Cloudy Sky To Improve Mental Health in Nature

People around the world love and grieve nature in unique ways

By Sara Kiley Watson

Aerial view of a highway interchange with cars congested on one side.

Under a new policy, federal agencies will have to weigh the climate costs of their actions

By Philip Kiefer

Energy costs hit low-income Americans the hardest

Energy costs hit low-income Americans the hardest

Man tending to sheep in a drought on Australian farm.

Climate change is blowing our predictions out of the water, says the IPCC

By Sara Kiley Watson

Museum collections tag for Indigenous seeds from the University of Michigan

Indigenous farmers are ‘rematriating’ centuries-old seeds to plant a movement

By Kalen Goodluck

Creek running through yellow meadows and mountains in the Colorado basin

The US is losing some of its biggest freshwater reserves

Border patrol sign warning visitors about illegal immigration at Organ Pipe National Monument in front of a cacti

Climate change makes it deadlier to cross the US-Mexico border

By Angely Mercado

Gabtoli, Bangladesh after a storm.

Climate change disasters cost the world over $100 billion this year

By Angely Mercado

Aging walls of an old Alcoa aluminum plant on concrete polluted ground

A North Carolina town struggles under the toxic shadow of the company that built it

By Emily Cataneo/Undark

Plastic production is a fossil fuel problem

Plastic production is a fossil fuel problem

By Erica Cirino

Minnesota’s Line 3 pipeline threatens one of North America’s only native grains

Minnesota’s Line 3 pipeline threatens one of North America’s only native grains

By Angely Mercado

Google headquarters in Mountain View, California

Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies just a new kind of greenwashing?

By Angely Mercado

Almost half of the world’s children live in dangerous climate conditions

Almost half of the world’s children live in dangerous climate conditions

By Angely Mercado

Keystone XL is officially dead

Keystone XL is officially dead

By Sara Kiley Watson

Indigenous languages hold the keys to medicinal forest libraries

Indigenous languages hold the keys to medicinal forest libraries

By Virginia Gewin