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How a Power Line From Canada Could Be a New York Lifeline
The pipeline from Quebec will help New York meet ambitious targets for cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions and could be crucial if the city faces a power shortfall.
Georgia Hasn’t Had a Consumer Advocate for Electric Ratepayers for 18 Years
A bill to restore the state’s consumer utilities counsel failed to move forward, meaning Georgia will remain one of only a handful of states without a statutory advocate representing ratepayers. By Ryan Krugman Eighteen years after Georgia eliminated its consumer…
On Thin Ice
Upstairs, right outside my toddler’s room, hangs this striking, blue-blue print of an Icelandic glacier ice cave: the Crystal Ice Cave, circa 2015, long since vanished. My friend Þorri took the image and gifted it to me during one of…
Ask a Climate Therapist: How can I balance my travel itch with guilt about emissions?
Dear Leslie, Almost all of the money I save goes toward travel — meeting friends abroad, visiting relatives, or checking national and international parks off my bucket list. I try to be as sustainable in my personal life as possible,…
Week in wildlife: wild boar babies, fenland ponies and a slug with strange genitalia
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading…
Jakarta port authorities seize 3 tons of pangolin scales in Cambodia-bound container
JAKARTA — Customs inspectors at the Indonesian capital’s main port uncovered more than 3 metric tons of pangolin scales in a shipping container bound for Cambodia in late February, in one of the largest seizures of the critically endangered mammal…
‘Like lighting a cigarette while trying to quit’: Australia approves new coal seam gas expansion
The expansion in Queensland, which has been approved until 2081, will contribute about 120m tonnes of carbon emissions over its lifetime Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A major coal seam gas expansion, contributing about…
Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists
Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year The record-breaking heatwave scorching the US west this week would have been “virtually impossible” if not for the climate crisis, a…
Work from home and slow down on the road: world’s energy watchdog advises emergency measures as oil prices rise
IEA makes 10 recommendations to help households and businesses prepare for a drawn-out disruption to energy markets The world’s energy watchdog has advised governments to reduce highway speeds and encouraged workers to carpool or, ideally, work from home to combat…