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When big investors like Blackrock get worried about their returns, they have the power and incentive to make fossil fuel…
Ford's electric F-150 pickup won't roll off assembly lines until early 2022, but the company has received thousands…
Scientists used charcoal layers in the sediment of lake beds across the Rockies to track fires in each area. Combined with…
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions…
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When Buffalo, New York, changed its zoning code so that developers no longer had to provide specified amounts of parking,…
Using remnants of fossilized trees, scientists and an artist figured out what the forest looked like long before humans…
Satellites can already spot a new fire within minutes, but the information they beam back to Earth isn't getting to…
Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an…
Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo.…
Drought has been a threat multiplier for centuries, fueling conflict and migration from the time of the Ottoman Empire to…
Federal weather scientists are pushing to make the US more 'weather-ready,' which could mean prepping for fires,…
Photos from the early 1900s show LA's forests of oil derricks. Hundreds of wells are still pumping, and new research…
It's hard to preserve national parks "unimpaired," as US law directs, when they're overrun with tourists…
The 2021 hurricane season is almost here, and it's forecast to be another busy one. Here's how heat, winds and the…