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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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These Utilities May Be Wildly Overestimating the AI Boom—at Public Expense

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As more and more data centers crop up throughout Georgia and the Southeast, a recent study finds they may need less energy than the industry and utilities have been predicting. That could have substantial implications for […]

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The Adorable Patients of This Special Bat Hospital Will Warm Your Heart

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Australia is famously a place with some of the world’s most dangerous and frightening animals. Venomous spiders. Deadly snakes. Jellyfish with fatal stings. But it is also home to one of the world’s cutest: the flying fox, also known as the giant […]

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Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers

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Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.

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Ohio Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Essentially Ban Solar and Wind Projects

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not just federal headwinds that threaten to constrain renewable energy development. State and local restrictions on solar and wind are spreading across the United States, too. Few states highlight this fact as well as Ohio does. The Buckeye State makes […]

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The United States Sacrificed $35 Billion in Clean Energy Projects Last Year

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than a decade, the clean energy economy has been on a steep growth trajectory. Companies have poured billions of dollars into battery manufacturing, solar and wind generation, and electric vehicle plants in the US, as solar costs fell sharply and […]

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Here’s the Thing About Bad Bunny’s Light Poles

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While watching Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, you may have noticed the artist climbing electrical poles with other performers while singing “El Apagón.” The song comes from the artist’s fifth studio album Un Verano Sin Ti, the most-streamed album globally on Spotify back in 2022. The album, which translates to A Summer […]

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Native Families Were Promised Free Solar. Trump Took It Away.

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This story is published in partnership with The Daily Yonder.  It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in northern Montana. Joseph Eagleman was standing on a grassy hill, looking at a 20-panel solar array in the backyard of a Chippewa Cree elder. It was built under the Solar […]

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There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as […]

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Japan Embarks on a Deep-Sea Mining Experiment With Unknown Consequences

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The year 2010 was a reckoning for Japan’s economic security.  On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands, which are known in China as Diaoyu. The […]

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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amid rising concern about global heating and soaring energy costs, Michigan has sued big oil for allegedly fueling both crises—a move experts have hailed as groundbreaking. In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, accused four fossil fuel majors and the […]

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