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![Medical symbol Rod of Asclepius - star with snake around rod - with continent silhouettes inside the star]()
![Medical symbol Rod of Asclepius - star with snake around rod - with continent silhouettes inside the star]()
The next frontier in medicine: Doctors with climate training
Medical schools across the country are increasingly reckoning with the need to teach the intersection of climate change and health.
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![A truck spreads salt on a road in Maine.]()
![A truck spreads salt on a road in Maine.]()
Road salt is imperiling US waterways. States might have a solution.
Crews dump more than 20 million metric tons of salt on US roads each winter. Could 'smart salting' help?
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There is a greener way to mine crypto
It’s worth examining how the many, many “clean” crypto initiatives, currencies, blockchains, and marketplaces for non-fungible tokens actually stack up.
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![Glen Canyon Dam Lake Powell Arizona]()
![Glen Canyon Dam Lake Powell Arizona]()
Lake Powell water crisis is about to be an energy crisis
As the West's megadrought continues, communities reliant on hydroelectric power — including tribes and rural towns — face shortages.
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Inflation is at a 40-year high. Is clean energy the solution?
Fact-checking Biden's claims about inflation, renewables, and domestic manufacturing.
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![A truck drives past the receiving station for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on March 9, 2022 near Lubmin, Germany.]()
![A truck drives past the receiving station for the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on March 9, 2022 near Lubmin, Germany.]()
‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out
As western governments untangle themselves from Russian oil and gas, Svitlana Krakovska argues that the roots of the climate crisis and invasion are in fossil fuels.
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Honolulu scores a win against Big Oil in climate change lawsuit
Out of over a dozen climate change cases filed nationwide, Honolulu’s lawsuit is leading the pack, attorneys say.
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![A BQ-100 Beechcraft aircraft fitted with canisters containing Silver Iodide, Sodium Chloride and Potassium Chloride on its wings takes off during the cloud seeding experiment Project Varshadhari at Jakkur Airport in the Indian city of Bangalore on August 21, 2017.]()
![A BQ-100 Beechcraft aircraft fitted with canisters containing Silver Iodide, Sodium Chloride and Potassium Chloride on its wings takes off during the cloud seeding experiment Project Varshadhari at Jakkur Airport in the Indian city of Bangalore on August 21, 2017.]()
Can cloud seeding help quench the thirst of the US West?
In the midst of a historic megadrought, states in the American West are embracing cloud seeding to increase snow and rainfall.
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![photo of wildfire at night overlapping photo of hurricane damaged trees]()
![photo of wildfire at night overlapping photo of hurricane damaged trees]()
First a hurricane, now wildfire: Climate disasters are colliding in Florida
How Hurricane Michael fueled fires in the Panhandle.
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![Tropical fish and cauliflower coral in shallow water, Moorea lagoon, Pacific Ocean, French Polynesia.]()
![Tropical fish and cauliflower coral in shallow water, Moorea lagoon, Pacific Ocean, French Polynesia.]()
Rumors of this coral’s survival were greatly exaggerated
Bleached coral can suffer long-lasting reproductive effects.
