Climate
Boston’s new mayor promised free public transit. Can she make it happen?
Without state and federal buy-in, experts say fare-free transit is just “talking about dreams.”
Read MoreGreen incentives usually help the rich. Here’s how the Build Back Better Act could change that.
The reconciliation bill could shake up the tradition of green handouts to the wealthy.
Read MoreWildfires are erasing Western forests. Climate change is making it permanent.
The evidence is clear: Forests are shifting to scrublands across large swaths of the Western U.S.
Read MoreFood banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues
Climate change, inflation, and price gouging are also at play.
Read MoreManchin and Cortez Masto kill chances of reforming outdated hardrock mining law
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
Read MoreEPA restores water protections weakened under Trump
Smaller waterways and wetlands will be covered again under Clean Water Act.
Read MorePublic schools are failing students on climate change
A new book exposes systemic shortcomings in the way global warming is taught in America.
Read More‘Weather whiplash’ in the Pacific Northwest is a sign of what climate change has in store
Mudslides, evacuations, roads snapped in half: Floods hit Washington state and British Columbia.
Read MoreFixing your iPhone is about to get a lot easier
By early 2022, customers will be able to buy replacement parts from Apple.
Read MoreIndonesia slashes 2021 mangrove restoration target, vows to make up in 2022
BALI — Indonesia has revised down its 2021 target for rehabilitating mangroves in light of “technical hurdles” brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors, according to the nation’s mangrove restoration agency. The new target is 33,000 hectares (81,500 acres), down from 83,000 hectares (205,000 acres), according to Hartono Prawiraatmadja, the head of the […]
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