Inside Clean Energy: In Illinois, an Energy Bill Passes That Illustrates the Battle Lines of the Broader Energy Debate
If you want to understand the politics of the clean energy transition, I could give you a stack of books
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POLITICS
Humans on earth have developed a form of governance built on politics. Politics is the mechanism that allows for human governance without the use of war. Politics is also war by another means, Geopolitics are the politics that affect us all even if the individual has absolutely no power to change the outcome.
The Rate of Global Warming During Next 25 Years Could Be Double What it Was in the Previous 50, a Renowned Climate Scientist Warns
James Hansen, a climate scientist who shook Washington when he told Congress 33 years ago that human emissions of greenhouse
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Killings of Environmental Advocates Around the World Hit a Record High in 2020
A record number of environmental activists were killed in 2020, according to the latest accounting by a U.K.-based advocacy group
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Indigenous Tribes Facing Displacement in Alaska and Louisiana Say the U.S. Is Ignoring Climate Threats
WASHINGTON—About 31 Native Alaskan communities face imminent climate displacement from flooding and erosion, which could lead cultures to disappear and
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Florida’s Majestic Manatees Are Starving to Death
ORLANDO, Fla.—The manatee was too weak to swim. She lay still in a medical pool at a SeaWorld rehabilitation center,
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Warming Trends: Indoor Air Safer From Wildfire Smoke, a Fish Darts off the Endangered List and Dragonflies Showing the Heat in the UK
SCIENCE Shelter From the Smoke For much of this summer, the skies across California have been tinted with a smoky
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Now on Hold, Georgia’s Progressive Program for Rooftop Solar Comes With a Catch
The math worked for adding solar panels to the roof of Temple Beth Tefilloh, a 135-year-old Jewish congregation that occupies
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Activists Call for Delay to UN Climate Summit, Blaming UK for Vaccine Delays
More than 1,500 civil society groups joined a growing chorus demanding the postponement of the U.N. climate change conference on
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To Meet Paris Accord Goal, Most of the World’s Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground
After a summer of weather extremes that highlighted the urgency of limiting global warming in starkly human terms, new research
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Farming Without a Net
The bustle of birds and insect pollinators is the first thing you notice at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, about
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