Heat pumps used to struggle in the cold. Not anymore.
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How guayule, a small shrub, could help the US rubber industry
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Our US disaster recovery system must evolve to respond more effectively to climate change
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A melting Alaska glacier keeps inundating Juneau
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AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
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Deaths mount and water rationed as India faces record heat
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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Canada’s fire season erupts, sending harmful smoke into United States
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Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce
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What your next water heater will look like
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Humans might need to re-engineer the climate
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
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Cutting-edge tech made the Netherlands a major exporter of food (2022)
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Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’
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Scientists have found a ‘sleeping giant’ of environmental problems: Earth is getting saltier
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A deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh
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Three big, bold ideas to douse the flames of a world on fire
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Buried under the ice
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Why (some) fireflies are going extinct
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As Idalia hit Florida, all of NOAA’s hurricane-hunting planes were grounded
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Climate change is changing the ocean’s color
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Taliban bringing water to Afghanistan’s parched plains via massive canal
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British Columbia declares state of emergency amid ‘devastating’ wildfires
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Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show
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Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
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How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle
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In the US, as the planet records some of its highest average temperatures, workers have barely any legal protections from extreme heat
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It’s Canada’s worst fire season in modern history, as smoke fills skies
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Heat and smoke are smothering most of the US, putting lives at risk
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Humans have used enough groundwater to shift Earth’s tilt
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfs East Coast, upending daily life
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Phoenix area can’t meet groundwater demands over next century
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How US Supreme Court’s EPA ruling might affect wetlands, clean water
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The little-known unintended consequence of recycling plastics
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You’re probably recycling wrong. This quiz will help you sort it out.
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Giant California greenhouse signals a big bet on cannabis legalization
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When the sun sets and the magic ends, these birds wreak havoc
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Arizona city cuts off a neighborhood’s water supply amid drought
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Disaster scenarios raise the stakes for Colorado River negotiations
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Sweden finds explosive traces at Nord Stream blast sites, confirms sabotage
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US diesel squeeze
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Mississippi River levels are dropping too low for barges to float
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Coral Vita aims to grow corals up to fifty times faster than in nature through land-based farms
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Heat pumps take off in coal-loving Poland amid Ukraine war
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Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
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Oil refineries are making a windfall. Why do they keep closing?
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