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![A big machine lifts logs from a stack of raw timber]()
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Wood isn’t the climate-friendly material you think it is
A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.
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![A coal miner in blue coveralls and a headlamp looks directly at the camera while crouching in the cramped confines of a mine shaft.]()
![A coal miner in blue coveralls and a headlamp looks directly at the camera while crouching in the cramped confines of a mine shaft.]()
A rule that could help save coal miners’ lives finally moves forward
After decades of hard work, coal miners' advocates celebrate a federal plan to tighten toxic silica dust exposure guidelines — and vow to make it even stronger.
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Canadian wildfire smoke brings another wave of ‘very unhealthy’ air to the Midwest, East Coast
It likely won't be the last time this summer.
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Tropical forest loss sped up in 2022, despite global pledge to halt deforestation
A new analysis shows the world lost 10 million acres of tropical forest last year — an area the size of Switzerland.
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The feds move to speed up development of wind and solar on public land
A rule proposed by the Bureau of Land Management would cut leasing fees for those projects by 80 percent.
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Closing the coal ash loophole
Over half the nation's coal ash sites are unregulated. If a new EPA proposal closes the loophole, what comes next for communities that live with them?
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![A view of a muddy sandbank with a tanker on a river in the background.]()
![A view of a muddy sandbank with a tanker on a river in the background.]()
The climate crisis is on track to push one-third of humanity out of its most livable environment
As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
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![An aerial view of the earth and the clouds covering it.]()
The upper atmosphere is cooling, prompting new climate concerns
A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.
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Why is the summer off to such an extreme start?
Blame climate change, El Niño, and a dose of bad luck.
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How climate justice could look different — and the same — in the Gulf Coast and Appalachia
Four new reports draw connections between the two regions.
