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Rising sea levels mean ordinary high tides are now enough to flood roads in some North Carolina coastal towns, cutting residents off from work, school and medical appointments as often as 100 days a year.
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Satellite imagery and utility statements suggest xAI has installed a multi-gigawatt-hour battery system at its Memphis data center, though the company has disclosed few details.
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An investigation finds the U.S. air-monitoring network has shrunk by nearly half over two decades, leaving most counties without a public monitor even as industrial and wildfire pollution grows.
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A formalized mining operation in Peru's Madre de Dios region is testing mercury-free, solar-powered gold extraction, but sustaining it will require government support the miners say they don't have.
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As solar and wind power expand and new cross-border grid links open up, Laos's decades-long role as Southeast Asia's hydropower exporter is starting to shift.
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A British company has proven its dense-fluid pumped hydro storage system works, but the minerals it needs make longer-duration storage impractical at scale.
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Thailand is putting $6 billion into rooftop solar subsidies to cut its exposure to energy price shocks from the Middle East, even as Southeast Asia's banks keep favoring fossil fuels over renewables.
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Harbor construction has destroyed a South Korean fishing ground, and the free-diving women who worked it for decades are demanding compensation from the builder.
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The Philippines' updated UN climate pledge leans on forests as a carbon sink but leaves out a concrete commitment to phase out fossil fuels, drawing criticism from environmental groups.
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Twelve's AirPlant One facility in Washington state is the first commercial-scale US plant turning captured carbon dioxide into jet fuel, and it just secured fresh financing to expand.
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The space economy could reach $2 trillion by 2040, and suppliers are racing to build cheaper, more durable solar cells to power the satellites that will run on it.
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Plug-in solar panels that hang off a balcony have gone from a niche German habit to one of the fastest-growing clean energy trends in the US this year.
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