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      By Isabella O’Malley The Associated Press The Energy Department is announcing a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power it said Friday morning. The funds will be distributed among 15 projects in 17 states and...
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INCREASING THREATS AI tech is being used to battle wildfires By Kelvin Chan The Associated Press LONDON>> Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solution...
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SUMMER OF RECORDS  By Delger Erdenesanaa The New York Times Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temperature for the mont...
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By Maddie Burakoff The Associated Press NEW YORK>> Fall is in the air — officially. The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. But what does that actually mean? Here’s what to know about how we split up the year using the Earth’s orbi...
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         By Coral Davenport The New York Times A directive issued Thursday by the Biden administration would, for the first time, have federal agencies consider the economic damage caused by climate change when deciding what kinds of vehicles, equipment and goods to buy. ...
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           By Delger Erdenesanaa The New York Times Temperature records continue to topple. Last month was the planet’s warmest August in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 174-year record, agency officials said Thursday. The global surface temper...
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           By Delger Erdenesanaa and Noah Weiland The New York Times On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing. Smoke from increasingly frequent and...
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Posted by on in Wildlife Conservation
By Ryan Spencer Summit Daily The Tuesday after Labor Day, a few volunteers worked as busily as beavers, wading knee deep into dammed waters along North Tenmile Creek in Frisco. A chain saw, three corrugated plastic pipes, wire and rebar lay around the picnic table where Alton Penz and Frank Ricci...
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New research reveals that even a “mid-transition” to electrified transportation could have outsized health and economic benefits for Black and Latino residents. By Aydali Campa September 20, 2023 Electrifying just 30 percent of all light- and heavy-duty vehicles in the lower Great Lakes region co...
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A small city ended its bus service to find out By Jeff McMurray The Associated Press When a small city abruptly parked all its buses to launch a publicly subsidized van service offering $1.50 trips anywhere in town, only one of its bus drivers — a big-city transplant — went along for the ride. M...
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By Coral Davenport The New York Times If President Joe Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases. New controls on ...
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Utility says it’s working with installers, governments to meet solar power demand   By Judith Kohler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. People who lost their homes in the 2021 Marshall fire, Colorado’s costliest at $2 billion in property damage, have spent much time going back and forth with insurance ...
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By Nicholas Kristof © The New York Times Co. World leaders are gathering this week at the United Nations and proclaim their passion for ending poverty and hunger around the globe. This week, approximately 90,000 children under the age of 5 will die, mostly of preventable causes. As leaders discus...
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By Somini Sengupta The New York Times MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.>> Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be. Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-cov...
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By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS>> The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious. Among them: End extreme poverty and hunger. Ensure every child on Earth gets a quality secondary education. Achieve gender equality. Make significant inroads in tackling climate change....
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Proposal would change 151-year-old law related to hardrock minerals By Matthew Daly The Associated Press WASHINGTON>> The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making...
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  Harnessing the Power of People to Fight Ocean Trash In partnership with volunteer organizations and individuals around the globe, the International Coastal Cleanup® (ICC) engages people to remove trash from the world’s beaches and waterways. Thanks to millions of volunteers around the world...
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By Sam Metz and Rick Bowmer The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY>> It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring — find their way to Ella Branham. ...
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$1 billion or more events The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities. T...
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By Matt O’Brien and Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa>> The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Rac...
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