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How to See Our Species with the Big Picture

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Abolish Fossil Fuels

A moral case for ending the age of coal, oil, and gas

By Jason Mark

September 23, 2024

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What Would It Take to Bring Renewable, Reliable Power to Puerto Rico?

The island is struggling to build a more stable electrical grid. What’s taking so long?

By Marlowe Starling

August 15, 2024

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The Carbon Footprint of Amazon, Google, and Facebook Is Growing

How cloud computing—and especially AI—threaten to make climate change worse

By Andrew Leonard

September 11, 2024

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September 16, 2024

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At COP29, US Climate Congress Changes Tune

With a president-elect bent on dismantling climate gains, US climate allies reach for economics

By Nour Ghantous

November 15, 2024

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The Cascading Effect of Climate Change in the Aleutians and Across the Bering Sea

The waters in the region are warming four times faster than the rest of the ocean

Text and photographs by Brandon Withrow

November 6, 2024

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This Boston Start-up Has a Recipe for Low-Carbon Cement

And a massive grant from the Department of Energy to soon produce it at an industrial scale

By Julia Sklar

November 6, 2024

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At COP16, South American Nations Face the Climate Crisis in Real Time

Signs of climate chaos plague this week’s Peace With Nature biodiversity conference

Text and photographs by Joshua Collins

October 25, 2024