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As private weather forecasting takes off, who is left behind?
As climate change intensifies extreme weather, cities and companies are paying for private forecasting. But what about the places that can't afford it?
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Shell consultant quits, accusing firm of ‘extreme harms’ to environment
Caroline Dennett tells staff in video she made decision because of ‘double-talk on climate.’
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The mental block preventing people from buying electric vehicles
A new study found people greatly underestimate how many of their daily tasks an EV could support.
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![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
![Cars and motorbikes drive through heavy smog, with birds in the foreground amid heavy pollution.]()
Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year
World governments have made "strikingly little effort" to solve the problem.
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When wheat never dies
Could commercially viable and tasty perennial crops like Kernza be regenerative agriculture's holy grail?
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![A male farmer wearing overalls and a red cap looking down at dry, cracked earth caused by severe drought]()
![A male farmer wearing overalls and a red cap looking down at dry, cracked earth caused by severe drought]()
‘Flash droughts’ are Midwest’s next big climate threat
New research shows that dry weather is coming on more quickly than before, with little advance warning.
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![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
![A drone hovers in front of a tractor with fertilizer equipment during a 2021 technology show in a field in northern Saxony. A multispectral camera on the drone detects the fertilizer needs of the arable plants.]()
Although the data is thin, advocates say robotics and AI will soon revolutionize agriculture
Because most of the systems aren’t yet on the market, there’s precious little real-world data proving they work.
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![The Sacred Maori mountain of Te Mata peak in the Hawkes bay of New Zealand.]()
![The Sacred Maori mountain of Te Mata peak in the Hawkes bay of New Zealand.]()
Using a board game to plan for a changing planet
For one Māori community, a board game sparked serious discussions about flood risk.
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![San Diego has shored up its water supplies by upgrading the All-American Canal, which takes Colorado River water to California's Imperial Valley.]()
![San Diego has shored up its water supplies by upgrading the All-American Canal, which takes Colorado River water to California's Imperial Valley.]()
A quiet revolution: Southwest cities learn to thrive amid drought
San Diego, Phoenix, and Las Vegas have embraced innovative strategies for conserving and sourcing water, providing these metropolitan areas with sufficient water supplies to support their growing populations.
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![A drone photo shows mucilage, also known colloquially as sea snot, continuing to invade the Marmara Sea, at Gulf of Izmit in Darica district of Kocaeli's Eskihisar coastline.]()
![A drone photo shows mucilage, also known colloquially as sea snot, continuing to invade the Marmara Sea, at Gulf of Izmit in Darica district of Kocaeli's Eskihisar coastline.]()
Global heating risks most cataclysmic extinction of marine life in 250 million years
New research warns pressures of rising heat and loss of oxygen reminiscent of ‘great dying’ that occurred about 250 million years ago.
