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Kathmandu finally got tap water. After a climate disaster, it was gone
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Kathmandu finally got tap water. After a climate disaster, it was gone

A disaster that wiped out a decades-long project to bring pipe-borne water to Nepal’s capital shows the mismatch between slow-moving donor-financed efforts and rapid global warming.
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Mongolia secures funding for major wind and solar project
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Mongolia secures funding for major wind and solar project

Mongolia has secured funding from the Asian Development Bank and other sources to build a 41-megawatt distributed renewable energy system that will provide clean electricity to about 260,000 people living in remote areas in the western part of the country.

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Can this new electric rickshaw stop cars from taking over Asian cities?
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Can this new electric rickshaw stop cars from taking over Asian cities?

This rickshaw is designed to modernize the more sustainable transportation option.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
Basel’s green roof revolution: an image of buildings with plants growing on the rooftops.

Basel’s green roof revolution is creating a thriving urban ecosystem

A yellow and black sign saying Break Free from Fossil Fuels

Major fossil fuel companies linked to half of global carbon emissions

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Nonprofits still blocked from $20 billion in climate funds amid investigations

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Major U.S. banks drop out of climate pledge, raising calls for regulation

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EPA urges White House to eliminate key climate rule

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UN climate talks face tensions over timing of next major report and U.S. withdrawal

CLIMATE
A group of people march with science advocating for science.

Scientists fight back against funding cuts and policy threats

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Texas oil boom fuels prosperity but leaves a deadly toll on workers and roads