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Trucks are stuck in traffic on the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway at Roosevelt Road in Chicago on Jan. 19, 2022.
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Biden administration rolls out strongest pollution standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses
Methane plumes observed by Carbon Mapper during aerial surveys at a landfill in Georgia.
Carbon Mapper
A potent planet-warming gas is seeping out of US landfills at rates higher than previously thought, scientists say
View of Southern Africa and the Antarctic polar region from space.
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Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation. It’s messing with time itself
A box of frozen lobster tails is discarded with other food scraps in San Francisco, US, in 2022.
Brittany Hosea-Small/Reuters
The world wastes more than 1 billion meals every day as hundreds of millions go hungry, UN report finds
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2024. Altman has said nuclear fusion is the answer to meet AI's enormous appetite for electricity.
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ChatGPT’s boss claims nuclear fusion is the answer to AI’s soaring energy needs. Not so fast, experts say
People try to remove water from their flooded house after a rainstorm on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
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At least 27 dead as flooding ravages southeast Brazil
Residents of the township of Soweto, South Africa, queue for water Saturday, March 16, 2024. Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people. Residents rich and poor have never seen a shortage of this severity. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Taps running dry have become part of daily life in South Africa’s biggest city
Peaches are piled in a box as workers harvest the last crop of the season off the trees at Pearson Farm on July 24, 2023, in Fort Valley, Georgia.
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How the climate crisis is putting your favorite summer fruits at risk
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Seth H. Frisbie
Tens of millions of people in this country drink arsenic-contaminated water. It could get a lot worse
The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime at the Washington, D.C. Auto Show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Michael Brochstein/Sipa
Biden administration rolls out new tailpipe rules that will boost EVs and hybrids
Old Fadama, Accra, Ghana, February 7, 2023: Locally generated end-of-life mobile phones sold for parts and recycling.
Muntaka Chasant for Fondation Carmignac
Electronic waste has grown to record levels. Here’s why that’s a huge problem
Fuel storage tanks continue to burn after a blast on Saturday at the Amuay refinery in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Aug. 27, 2012. The accident early Saturday morning killed at least 41 people. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
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Natural gas exports have lax oversight that experts say could lead to a devastating explosion. It’s happened before
Wind turbines tower above a home in Weatherford, Oklahoma, in April 2022.
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How much are wind turbines dragging down home values? A new study has surprising answers
ATLANTIC OCEAN - SEPTEMBER 8: In this NOAA image taken by the GOES satellite, Hurricane Lee crosses the Atlantic Ocean as it moves west on September 8, 2023. Lee reached Category 5, but then weakened slightly to Category 4 as it expected to be a dangerous storm as it moves over the southwest Atlantic. It is too early to know if it will directly affect the United States. (Photo by NOAA via Getty Images)
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Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year
A drone view of the grasslands burning from the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Roberts County, Texas, U.S., February 28, 2024.
Nathan Frandino/Reuters
New map shows just how extreme last month was for the planet
 a new electricity generator inspired by the 'drinking bird toy'.
Xuezhi Qin and Hao Wu
The ‘drinking bird’ makes a comeback and could power your gadgets with clean energy