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  • The coal-burning TransAlta plant is seen on April 29, 2011, near Centralia, Washington. Washington governor Chris Gregoire signed a bill Friday that will gradually shut down the plant, the only coal-burning power plant in Washington state, and TransAlta will get expedited permits to build a natural gas-fired plant in Lewis County to come online by 2020.
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    Trump is using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open. It could increase your bill
  • Construction for the Sunrise Wind farm, pictured on March 19, 2025.
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    Trump’s attempts to kill offshore wind aren’t working
  • Power transmission lines are seen at sunset in Thousand Oaks, California, on January 27.
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    Trump claims blue states have less-reliable, more expensive electricity. Here’s the reality
  • A polar bear with her cub on a snowy beach in Svalbard, Norway on September 17, 2025
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    Polar bears in Norway’s Arctic are getting fatter and healthier, despite melting sea ice
  • An Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana, U.S., October 3, 2025.
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    Big tech is increasingly promising to pay for spiking power costs. But there’s not much to enforce it
  • A person walks in a snowy Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
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    How this brutal winter storm is even possible with climate change – and maybe even more likely
  • The Palisades nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Michigan.
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    New-wave reactors are the face of an American nuclear renaissance. Some experts are sounding alarms
  • This aerial photograph shows a view of Meyil sinkhole, with its pink lake, in Karapinar in the central Anatolian province of Konya, on June 24, 2024. Sinkholes have existed for centuries in Konya, a vast agricultural province known as Turkey's breadbasket but their numbers have risen in recent years due to increasing drought and a subsequent overuse of groundwater for irrigation, experts say. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)
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    The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences
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  • Firefighters shovel outside Boston Fire Department Engine 33 Ladder 15 during a winter storm in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026.
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    The eastern US has been gripped by an Arctic freeze. That’s about to change
  • PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA - FEBRUARY 2:  Groundhog handler AJ Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil after he saw his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter during the 140th annual Groundhog Day festivities on Monday February 2, 2026 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Groundhog Day is a popular tradition in the United States and Canada. If Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his den. Early spring arrives if he does not see his shadow, causing Phil to remain above ground.  (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
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    What did the groundhog see? Punxsutawney Phil’s winter prediction is in

Solutions

  • A satellite image of the Al Shuaibah solar plant near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 8, 2025.
    European Space Agency
    This oil-rich country has stood in the way of climate action. It’s quietly building a clean energy empire
  • In this photograph taken on July 2, 2025, technicians install solar panels on the rooftop of a factory in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.
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    The surprising countries pulling off stunningly fast clean energy transitions
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    Fervo Energy Company
    They’re using the techniques honed by oil and gas to find near-limitless clean energy beneath our feet
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    These sleek, sustainable homes are breaking the stereotype for prefab construction
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  • Bako Motors designed the Bee, an electric vehicle with solar panels on its roof, for daily in-city trips.
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    The solar-powered compact car driving Tunisia’s electric vehicle revolution
    Jan 29, 2026
  • This picture taken on December 11, 2019, shows a view of railroad tracks by a quarry site at the Jubail Industrial City, about 95 kilometres north of Dammam in Saudi Arabia's eastern province overlooking the Gulf. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Saudi Arabia says it has $2.5 trillion in mineral reserves. That could make it a key player in the race for rare earths
    Jan 23, 2026
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    UNSW Sydney
    ‘Night-time solar energy’ could one day power satellites
    Jan 21, 2026
  • A rendering shows MIMiC’s terminal unit in an home setting.
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    A cooler climate solution: Air-conditioning without the compressor
    Jan 19, 2026
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    Video Bearded vulture on the brink: Conservationists in South Africa and Lesotho race to save this raptor 4:00
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    Video Iceland’s big problem with Instagrammable flowers 1:31
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    Video Underwater ‘reef music’ could help in coral restoration 3:59
  • Hit play captures vital moment in climate change history
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    Video Hit play captures vital moment in climate change history 3:18
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    ‘Save the Whales’ was a shining success. Now can humpbacks save us from ourselves?
  • A turtle swims in a shallow lagoon at Lady Elliot Island, off the Queensland Coast.
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    ‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
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    Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they’re targeting another crisis
  • BOULDER, CO - MARCH 26: A firefighter watches as the NCAR Fire burns on March 26, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. The wildfire, which has forced almost 20,000 people to evacuate their homes, started just a few miles away from where the Marshall Fire destroyed more than 1,000 homes in December, 2021. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)
    Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images
    A plant that’s everywhere is fueling a growing risk of wildfire disaster

EXTREMES

  • People ride through an obstacle course in a Jeep Rubicon at the Jeep exhibit at the 2026 Detroit Auto Show on January 14, 2026, in Detroit, Michigan.
    Bill Pugliano/Getty Images
    Jeep maker Stellantis announces a ‘reset’ of its business and massive charges. Shares crumble
    Feb 6, 2026
  • People take shelter at a metro station during a Russian air attack, in Kyiv, early on February 3, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    Serhii Okunev/AFP/Getty Images
    Russia resumes night strikes on major Ukrainian cities, ending brief reprieve agreed between Putin and Trump
    Feb 3, 2026
  • Tracking the bomb cyclone in maps and charts
    Jan 31, 2026

WATER

  • Children play next to floating houses on the dry banks of Lake Tefe during what the National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (Cemaden) says is the most intense and widespread drought Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950, near Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil September 17, 2024.
    Jorge Silva/Reuters
    Amazon lakes became ‘simmering basins’ as temperatures spiked to 105 degrees — above recommended limits for hot tubs
    Nov 6, 2025
  • Local farmer Adam Mudenda walks through his field of drought-affected maize in Heany Junction outside Bulawayo, Zimbabwe March 7, 2024.
    KB Mpofu/Reuters
    African maize is facing a drought crisis, but new ideas are taking root
    Oct 24, 2025
  • Lake Mead upstream from the Hoover Dam in April 2023.
    Will Lanzoni/CNN
    Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade
    Sep 23, 2025

COST OF LIVING

  • DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA - AUGUST 15: Vegetables on display in a grocery store on August 15, 2025 in Delray Beach, Florida. Wholesale prices for fresh vegetables soared by 38.9 % a record amount, last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    Joe Raedle/Getty Images
    Trump’s tariffs, deportations and climate change are making groceries more expensive
    Sep 20, 2025
  • A person buys fruits inside a market in Kolkata, India, on May 25, 2025. (Photo by Sudipta Das/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
    Sudipta Das/NurPhoto/Getty Images
    Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says
    Jul 22, 2025
  • President Donald Trump signs his tax and budget bill from the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, in Washington, DC.
    Tom Brenner/The Washington Post/Getty Images
    How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ frames the defining debate for 2026
    Jul 13, 2025

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