Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be.
A pioneering California law meant to sharply limit use of the familiar “chasing arrows” recycling symbol has been ...
Wildfire prevention is always a challenge. Hotter weather makes it worse.
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Here’s what supercharged the monster wildfires in Spain and France
Over the past week, hundreds of thousands of people in France and Spain fled their homes, many in the dead of nigh...
These psychedelic images reveal what your weather app isn’t telling you
My weather app says it’s 80 degrees, but that’s a lie. I’m standing on a football field at Portland State Universi...
China’s solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.
Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them...
Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal
As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they h...
Next stop for California’s high-speed rail: Finding private investors
California has spent nearly two decades relying on taxpayers to finance its high-speed rail project. Now it’s look...
Inside the ‘America First’ makeover of a global hunger program
Bassirou Sani Boubacar Gaoh has spent the last decade trying to figure out how the plants feeding millions across ...