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Home batteries could become the next must-have household appliance

An energy expert explains how batteries can lower electric bills, keep homes running during outages, and ease pressure on an increasingly strained grid.
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Sweeping victory for Europe as 15 nations top climate scoreboard

Europe has come top in the latest Environmental Performance Index, partly due to the boom in renewables. But experts warn that more progress is needed.
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The climate fix: Target the biggest meat eaters

A Scottish study finds that shifting heavy meat eaters toward modest cuts, rather than trimming everyone's diet evenly, could prevent 60,000 diabetes cases and deliver outsized climate gains.
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Vancouver’s growing anti-AI movement

Residents of Vancouver, British Columbia are protesting and calling for a moratorium on new AI data centers — and local politicians are listening.

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The climate upside of higher gas prices

The Iran War’s unexpected environmental boost: electric vehicle sales.
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How to build a highway in the age of climate change

A San Francisco Bay Area highway project is raising questions about what it will take to fortify roads against rising sea levels.
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Grassroots justice group challenges Trump administration order to keep Florida coal plant running

Advocacy groups said the order failed to establish an energy emergency. The Department of Energy partly attributed one to anticipated demand associated with data centers.
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Uranium mining grows as Trump seeks to feed a nuclear boom

The federal government recently approved a South Dakota uranium project that moved through the FAST-41 permitting process.
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This permit, common for dry cleaners, is now being used to build AI power plants

Texas regulators are allowing AI data centers across the state to start up thousands of new pollution sources with no public notice or environmental reviews.
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Forecasters predict strengthening El Niño to reach historic levels

Federal forecasters say an intensifying El Niño is growing so fast it's on the way to becoming very strong, even reaching historic levels this fall.

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British Columbia isn’t ready for the next heat wave, doctors say

Poor, senior and disabled people are being left behind, and the province hasn’t divested from fossil fuels yet.

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