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Biden Expected to Permanently Ban Oil Drilling in Some Federal Waters
The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.
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What Happened to Carter’s White House Solar Panels? They Lived On.
The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates.
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To Understand Trump and Biden, Look to Reagan and Carter
Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.
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20 Years Later, a Look at The New York Times’ 52 Places to Go
The list made its debut in 2005, when world travel was about half of today’s 1.3 billion arrivals and phones were for making calls. Here’s how The Times’s annual travel list — and travel itself — has changed in the last two decades.
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The Panama Canal Has a Big Problem, but It’s Not China or Trump
Climate change is causing drought conditions that are making it harder to operate the Panama Canal and more expensive to pass through.
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Trump Wants Greenland and the Panama Canal. It’s About Climate.
Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade.
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China Hacks the Treasury Dept., and a Hydropower Crisis
Plus, what you might be eating in 2025.
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La EPA promueve un fertilizante tóxico. 3M le informó de los riesgos hace años
En 2003, la empresa compartió con la autoridad ambiental una investigación que revelaba que los lodos de aguas residuales, usados como fertilizante en todo EE. UU., contenían sustancias tóxicas.
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What If Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan Lived In This Alternate Timeline?
Carter’s vision and persistence on solar energy deserve to be brightly illuminated.
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Ecuador optó por la energía hidroeléctrica. Luego los ríos se quedaron sin agua
Una sequía ha afectado los ríos y embalses del país sudamericano, lo que ha provocado apagones de hasta 14 horas. Algunos temen que sea el inicio de una crisis mundial de este tipo de energías.
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This New Year, Resolve to Green Up Your News Feed
These organizations are capturing local and regional news about climate and environmental justice that often flies under the national radar.
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Hydropower Was Ecuador’s Answer to Climate Change. Until the Drought Hit.
An extraordinary drought has drained Ecuador’s rivers and reservoirs, leading to power outages of up to 14 hours. Some fear this is the beginning of a larger global crisis.
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These 10 Charts Will Help You Understand 2024
Steven Rattner recaps a historic year in charts.
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I Won’t Feel Good About Flying Until the Airlines Solve This
The aviation industry should get serious about direct air capture so that its emissions never reach the atmosphere.
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Why Coffee Prices Are Soaring (Again)
Wholesale coffee prices are trading near a 50-year high because of shortages related to extreme weather and increased global demand.
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7 People (and One Coyote) Who Made New York City a Better Place in 2024
They were the bright lights during a rocky year, making the city a cooler, and fairer, place to be.
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EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks
The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”
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Berrien Moore III Is Dead
As a researcher at several universities and an adviser at NASA, he used data analysis to show how the planet’s different systems are interrelated.
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Trump Wants U.S. Control of the Panama Canal. Here Are 3 Things to Know.
Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.
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A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth.
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