Renewable electricity is cheaper than ever. While the West got rich on coal and oil, some of the world's poorest countries are banking on solar, wind and water instead.
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While the West got rich on coal and oil, some of the poorest countries in the world are banking on solar, wind, and water instead.
In a first, researchers realistically calculated how solar farms in the Gobi Desert improve air quality in northern Chinese cities.
A landmark climate ruling that could redraw how fossil fuel projects are approved in Australia.
Wetland restoration and wildfire prevention can drive down insurers’ costs and skyrocketing premiums, a new study shows.
More than 1,200 Colorado students have graduated with a seal demonstrating their climate awareness. The idea is spreading to other states.
Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.
In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that switch on cooling and heating when you need it.
The Naylors’ four-bedroom home in Milton Keynes acts like a mini-power station after retrofitting solar panels, a battery and a heat pump.
Senior public servant says bureaucrats will speak up about misinformation that risks policy progress.

Oatly joins climate journalism campaign
01 October
The world’s largest producer of oat milk, Oatly, is pushing its customers and their governments to act on climate change, in a new milk carton campaign that's taking off in Europe and is expected in the United States within the next few months.
Ethiopia is trying to restore its native forests through one of the world's most ambitious and well-funded tree-planting campaigns, but experts question whether the trees will survive.
Electric cars have become mainstream in the past decade, making up one in four new car sales.
The partners behind a project in suburban Denver think they’ve found a way to accelerate the adoption of residential geothermal heating and cooling.
Democrat Rob Bonta is preparing to fight the president’s rollback of a regulatory keystone on climate.
Panama’s center-right president called on world leaders to adopt a new non-binding treaty, building on his nation’s own national rights of nature laws.
Rhode Island District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy ruled federal administrators broke the law when they canceled a $7 billion solar energy grant program after awards had already been given to recipients nationwide.
Winifred Sylvah picked a handful of plump cucumbers on a cold, wet September morning as raindrops trickled off rows of solar panels in the background.
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