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A view of first class seats on Qatar Airways

Business class flights are major polluters. Is cutting them the key to decarbonising air travel?

Scrapping premium seats could help halve global aviation emissions, according to a major new study.
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Opinion: How Europe’s climate and sustainability rules were shredded while citizens remained in the dark

Policymakers, civil society, investors, business, and the media all must answer key questions fast — before the regulatory rollback turns into a rout.
Black and white cows standing near a field with wind turbines in the background

Scientists fed biochar to cows. Here’s what happened

A new experiment shows biochar survives cow digestion largely intact, potentially turning cattle into a vehicle for spreading this carbon-stabilizing ingredient into the soil.
A side view of a Greater Prairie Chicken with orange and red feathers on its head

Republicans celebrate as lesser prairie chicken loses threatened, endangered status

The stocky, dancing bird that populates prairies across five states lost its federal protections — not because its habitats have dramatically improved, but because a Texas court sided with energy and livestock groups.
Portable balcony solar panel

Balcony solar is taking state legislatures by storm

In more than half of U.S. states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of DIY solar systems.
A closeup of pieces of wheat bread

Breadcrumbs (literally) lay path away from fossil fuels

Researchers have developed a carbon-negative method for hydrogenation that uses bacteria fed on waste bread to generate hydrogen for chemical reactions.

Refinery and petrochemical industrial plant

An oil refinery defined life in this quaint California city. What happens when it’s gone?

For decades, the Valero refinery shaped Benicia’s economy, politics and health. Now the city has become a reluctant test case of whether an oil town can reinvent itself
Two oil and gas pump jacks against the sunset sky

Colorado's oil and gas industry is vastly underestimating methane emissions

Watching from the sky, researchers find planet-warming pollutants leaking into the atmosphere are undercounted by at least two times.
School of fish around a coral reef

US government is accelerating coral reef collapse, scientists warn

Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign at the headquarters building in Washington, DC.

Trump EPA lays off more environmental justice staff

The move to cut more workers will further cement the administration’s deregulatory agenda for a smaller agency.
A power plant on a sunny day with a field in the foreground

Will feds step in if Saskatchewan breaks law on phasing out coal?

The Canadian government requires provinces to shutter coal-fired power plants by 2030, but the Prairie province is refurbishing its fossil fuel fleet.

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