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Meet the geothermal champions

Energy from Earth’s crust is renewable and clean. Here’s where it’s hot, and where it’s not.
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Geothermal power, cheap and clean, could help run Japan. So why doesn’t it?

For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.
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Inside Colorado's plan to expand geothermal energy

Geothermal plants currently provide less than half a percent of the nation’s power. Colorado is trying to change that.
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As climate change raises temperatures, water is being pushed in new and more extreme directions. But are there ways we could use water to our advantage, environmentally?

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