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[l] at 3/29/23 3:54am
With the former president now in hospice care, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird looks back on Jimmy Carter’s environmental record in the White House — from his sweeping protection of Alaska’s wild lands to his efforts to push the nation toward renewable energy.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/28/23 8:02am
EU countries have approved an end to the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035, allowing the law to enter into force.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/27/23 8:28am
Foundations have given more money to individual green groups, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and The Nature Conservancy, than to every U.S. environmental justice group put together, according to a new analysis.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/24/23 8:18am
The European Central Bank has made marked progress on its goal of investing in lower-carbon corporations, cutting the carbon intensity of new corporate bond purchases in half, a new report shows. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/23/23 3:00am
Despite rules requiring remediation, only a few of the nearly 300 U.S. power plants storing toxic ash — the residue of burning coal — have started cleanups or have plans to do so. Many of these sites are polluting groundwater, putting the drinking water for millions at risk.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/22/23 8:33am
A century of rising temperatures has extended the growing season of hardwood forests in the eastern U.S. by one month, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/21/23 3:00am
Costa Rica has won international acclaim for its initiatives to restore its forests. But those successes are now jeopardized by conflicts over the government’s failure to return traditional lands to the Indigenous people who are regarded as the best forest stewards.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/20/23 7:32am
The combined weight of every human is more than 10 times that of every wild land mammal put together, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/17/23 8:20am
A Swiss start-up will install solar panels on a railway in western Switzerland, pending approval from transportation officials.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/16/23 3:00am
Faced with the cutoff of Russian gas and oil, Europe ramped up solar and wind power, got serious about energy conservation, and tweaked policies to speed its green transition. Despite fears of increased emissions this winter, the EU remained on track to meet its climate goals.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/15/23 11:10am
As the planet rapidly approaches 1.5 degrees C of warming, scientists warn that rising temperatures are degrading the Earth's ability to soak up carbon dioxide, threatening to further exacerbate climate change. To keep warming in check, they stress, countries must make steep cuts to emissions in the next few years.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/14/23 3:00am
The Guarani Mbya people are working to restore the once-vast Atlantic Forest, which has been largely lost to development. Gaining official tenure of their lands, they hope, will boost their efforts, which range from planting native trees to reintroducing pollinators.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/13/23 7:08am
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has announced plans to plant 5 million trees to help the country cope with climate change.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/10/23 7:55am
U.S. scientists have deployed a modified Korean War-era bomber to measure trace gases in the stratosphere that reflect sunlight. The goal of the project: to better understand how humans might use such gases to cool an overheated planet.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/9/23 8:29am
Last year saw a record buildout of energy storage in the U.S., with battery and thermal storage growing by 73 percent, a new report finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/8/23 3:00am
Activists are blaming a recent spate of humpback strandings off New York and New Jersey on seismic exploration by offshore wind companies. But scientists say the deaths are not unusual and are likely due to increased ship traffic and entanglements with fishing gear. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/7/23 7:33am
Only one in every 100,000 people on Earth are breathing safe levels of fine particulate pollution, according to a new study.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/6/23 7:59am
UN member states have forged a landmark deal to guard ocean life, charting a path to create new protected areas in international waters.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/3/23 8:00am
Two banned insecticides known to linger in the atmosphere have been all but eliminated from North America's Great Lakes region, a study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/2/23 3:00am
After years of environmental assault — from dam building, overfishing, and logging — stretches of the Mekong River, upon which millions of people depend, appear to be recovering. Heavy rains have helped, along with a crackdown on illegal fishing and other conservation efforts.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 3/1/23 7:00am
Once driven to the brink of extinction, Mexican gray wolves have slowly returned to the U.S. Southwest. For the first time since their reintroduction more than two decades ago, their numbers total more than 200, according to federal officials.Read more on E360 →

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