Last year, Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to prison for setting fire to the Dakota Access Pipeline construction in 2016, where the court applied a “terrorism enhancement�? to her sentence. But is she a terrorist?
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According to a new report, European supermarket chains, European pet food producers, and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in the U.K, profit from human rights abuses and Indigenous land theft in Brazil.
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Flagstaff and Boulder County are teaming up to form a coalition of local governments that will pool resources to fund carbon dioxide removal projects in the Four Corners region.
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Recent research indicates fast-moving droughts are developing more and more quickly as climate change pushes temperatures to new extremes.
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How a M�?ori community designed a board game in partnership with researchers with the explicit goal of helping the hapū decide how to manage the flood risk to their marae.
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Studies show that 13 million Americans could become displaced by rising sea levels and $1 trillion worth of homes and commercial property could be inundated by the end of the century.
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World governments have made "strikingly little effort" to solve death and disease rates from pollution.
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“I was looking for a crop that would be more regenerative, that could build organic matter and that I could leave alone with no tillage and it would grow year on year. [Kernza] was the perfect solution for that.�?
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The First Nations Version of the New Testament places humans within, rather than above, the natural world.
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Extreme drought and heat could rock the US power grid this summer
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Maui-based Mana Pacific is helping to give Pacific nations greater access to renewable energy infrastructure through collective buying power and resource sharing. (Via )
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A neck-and-neck Democratic primary race for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District has yielded a probable winner: Summer Lee, a state representative who ran on a progressive platform of environmental, social, and economic justice.
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The PolyMet Mining Corporation has been locked in a battle to open Minnesota’s first copper-sulfide mine near a tiny town for over 17 years.
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Ever flipped your pillow over to rest your head on the cool side? It's a hell of a lot easier than stopping global warming, which a new study shows is already affecting the quality of our sleep and will continue to erode sleep as climate change accelerates.
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Climate change is keeping us up at night in more ways than one.
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Cleaner cars for Kiwis: A new program in New Zealand will help low- and middle-income families trade in their gasoline-powered cars for cleaner hybrids or EVs. Today's Beacon for .
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Researchers are using 3D modeling, virtual reality, and other technologies to introduce anyone with an internet connection to some of the planet’s most mysterious, and threatened, locations.
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On the sleepy shores of New York’s Seneca Lake, a cryptocurrency company is showing how Bitcoin can keep fossil fuel use alive.
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Climate change is creating faster droughts. Midwest farmers aren’t prepared
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Here's what that viral video of a house sinking into the ocean says about U.S. flood laws
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These cities are building a local coalition for carbon removal
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Alexis Nikole Nelson is a foraging expert who shares tips of the trade through TikTok.
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A number of hurdles stand in the way of New York City making progress on its climate ambitions. One of those obstacles can be found in a surprising place: the city's fire and building codes
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Explore the ways we build connections to nature, why those connections matter, and how equitable access to outside spaces is a vital climate solution in Fix's latest Outdoors Issue.
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If Biden is serious about addressing climate change, are tariffs really the best option?
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Hybrid heat pumps will become “the standard�? for all new Dutch houses and renovations that require a heating system replacement
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California is double-counting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the dairy sector, distorting its progress on climate change. New investigation, in partnership with :
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“California is treating factory farm gas systems at dairy farms like they are devices that suck carbon from the air.�? Learn more in one of The Counter’s final investigations co-published with Grist.
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Summer Lee supports an outright fracking ban, a rare position for a politician seeking to represent Pennsylvanians
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The European Commission announced a plan to wean itself off Russian natural gas, as the war in Ukraine wages on and global gas and oil prices continue to climb. Experts say the strategy "fails to disrupt our fossil gas habits."
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Public safety vs. climate action: The battle over the Big Apple's rules for buildings.
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California climate regulators are counting the same greenhouse gas emissions reductions multiple times across different environmental programs.
The arrangement risks distorting the state’s progress toward its climate goals.
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The U.S. has had multiple overlapping layers of solar tariffs for a decade. But are they working -- or just slowing decarbonization?
My latest, on the backdrop of the Auxin solar case, for
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When we think about barriers to climate action, lack of ambition or entrenched politics may come to mind. But in New York City, the problem isn't either of those things: it's the city's codes.
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Solar tariffs were supposed to save the U.S. solar industry. They slowed it down instead
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Can Europe really wean itself off Russian gas?
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