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Would You Pay $49 a Month to Drink Recycled Wastewater?

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One day, you’ll appreciate drinking recycled toilet water.  Urban populations are growing as water supplies are dwindling, often due to worsening droughts. In response, some communities are treating wastewater, rendering it perfectly safe for consumption. It is so pure, in fact, that […]

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Agriculture Is Consuming Grasslands and Wetlands at Alarming Rates

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Agriculture is widely known to be the biggest driver of forest destruction globally, especially in sprawling, high-profile ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest.  But new research published this week finds that non-forest ecosystems—the world’s grasslands, savannas, and wetlands—are being devoured […]

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Trump’s War on National Park Signs Is Even Dumber Than You Think

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Last fall, an informational sign vanished from a patch of grass across from Chevy Chase Circle in Northwest Washington, DC. The placard—installed in 2022 by the National Park Service after much discussion—described the career of Sen. Francis Newlands, who represented Nevada in Congress for a quarter century and championed irrigation projects in the American west. […]

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Fossil Fuel Firms’ Bid for Climate Immunity

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments in a climate accountability lawsuit, marking the first time the high court has weighed in on such a case. The decision could potentially hinder the wave of climate litigation the US has seen in […]

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How Trump Appointees Derailed a Clean Energy Future at the Nation’s Largest Public Utility

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s quarterly meeting in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, opened with a triumphant video homage to its work during Winter Storm Fern. Yet again, energy […]

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Federal Program That Helps Cities Prep for Disaster Stays Frozen Despite Judge’s Order

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When it comes to adapting to the consequences of climate change, the federal government has relied heavily on one flagship program: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities. Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), BRIC has doled out $4.5 billion in grants […]

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Trump Claimed His EPA Climate Rollback Will Save Americans Money. That’s Very Unlikely.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money. But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely […]

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Tired of Dystopian Sci-Fi? You Might Like Solarpunk.

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I was doomscrolling again. It was a fall evening in 2023, and I found myself sucked into a stream of posts about our collapsing climate: droughts causing billions in Dust Bowl–style crop damage, Florida’s worst-ever coral bleaching, a record melt in Greenland. To distract myself, I picked up The Lost Cause, the latest sci-fi novel from […]

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Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.

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On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […]

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Big Tech’s Claims That AI Can Help Fix the Climate Crisis Are “Greenwashing”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation […]

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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […]

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They Just Wanted to Grow Food. Their Suburban Neighbors Declared War.

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This article is adapted from Kate Brown’s new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, which will be published February 17, 2026, Copyright W. W. Norton & Company. In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived in a lush, affluent suburb of Chicago. Dan had a good job. Nicole home-schooled their […]

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