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Will a carbon market happen?
An enormous amount of work is underway to remove carbon from the atmosphere, but who will pay for it?
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How Bad Is A.I. for the Climate?
Tech giants are building power-hungry data centers to run their artificial intelligence tools. The costs of that demand surge are becoming clearer.
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I’m a Doctor. I Was Unprepared When I Got This Disease.
Our medical systems are not adequately equipped to diagnose tropical diseases, and in a warming climate, that’s a problem.
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Are Flight Offsets Worth It?
A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.
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¿Proteger los árboles de la Amazonía puede ser más rentable que la ganadería?
Varias empresas quieren crear una nueva industria que pueda hacer que los árboles, que almacenan el carbono que calienta al planeta, sean más lucrativos que la mayor causa de deforestación mundial: la ganadería.
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Some NASA Satellites Will Soon Stop Sending Data Back to Earth
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.
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Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat
Other states have also considered restrictions, citing concerns about farmers’ livelihoods and food safety, though the product isn’t expected to be widely available for years.
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Oil Companies Expand Offshore Drilling, Pointing to Energy Needs
Shell and others say they plan to drill for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico in part because doing so releases fewer greenhouse gases than drilling on land.
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Gas Stove Pollution Risk Is Greatest in Smaller Homes, Study Finds
Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.
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How a ‘Hidden’ $1.4 Billion Tax Will Make N.Y.C. Water Bills Rise
Mayor Eric Adams is resurrecting a budget gimmick and charging rent to the city’s Water Board, which will pass on the costs to ratepayers.
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Making flying cleaner
New guidelines attempt to make the aviation cleaner by relying on corn-based ethanol, but experts divided on the fuel’s environmental benefits.
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How Not to Be a Selfish Gardener
These spaces have historically been tied to exclusion and injustice, but we can cultivate them to be ethical and environmentally beneficial.
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Biden Expands Two National Monuments in California
As part of his plan to conserve the nation’s land and waters, Mr. Biden is enlarging the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.
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Forest Restoration Is Creating a Buzz in the Amazon
Cattle ranches have ruled the Amazon for decades. Now, new companies are selling something else: the ability of trees to lock away planet-warming carbon.
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Patagonia’s Documentary Wants Consumers to Think About Buying Less
Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.
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Sequía en el canal de Panamá: el fenómeno del Niño fue clave, según estudio
Un equipo de científicos ha concluido que el bajo nivel del agua que bloqueó el tráfico de mercancías está más relacionado con el ciclo climático natural que con el calentamiento provocado por la humanidad.
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Flooding in a Kenyan Natural Reserve Forces Tourist Evacuation
The heavy rains that have pounded East Africa for weeks, killing hundreds, have now spilled into the Masai Mara, one of Africa’s greatest wildlife national reserves.
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What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.
Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.
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Los chilenos que salvaron el valle del Cochamó
Durante una década, un empresario adinerado y un grupo de activistas sostuvieron un enfrentamiento que terminó con el intercambio de 63 millones de dólares.
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Drought That Snarled Panama Canal Was Linked to El Niño, Study Finds
The low water levels that choked cargo traffic were more closely tied to the natural climate cycle than to human-caused warming, a team of scientists has concluded.
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