As Trump tries to revive coal, an oratorio confronts mining's past.
By MICHAEL COOPERApril 4, 2017LEWISBURG, Pa. — Onstage, a choir intoned the names of coal miners whose deaths and injuries had landed them on the Pennsylvania...
We can resist the Dakota pipeline through a powerful tool: Divestment.
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The fossil fuel industry, and its enablers in government and the financial sector, have a stranglehold on us. But we can fight...
Brexit brings nuclear (con)fusion.
The world’s biggest active nuclear fusion project could lose EU funding just as it gears up for its grand finale.
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Bullish on renewable energy: Investors argue Trump can’t stop the revolution.
For proponents of clean energy, the Donald Trump administration already seems like a nightmare. In the worst moment so far, Trump surrounded himself with...
Can we find the world’s remaining peatlands in time to save them?
From the Amazon to the jungles of central Africa and Southeast Asia, previously unknown peatlands are emerging as a new focus in the fight...
How to protect Peru's rainforest? Indigenous land titles, researchers say.
"Titling reduces forest clearing by three-quarters"By Chris Arsenault
RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Providing formal land ownership titles to indigenous communities...
Inside Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo’s ambitious plans to create the post-car city.
A year ago, the Georges Pompidou highway next to the right bank of Paris’s Seine River was filled with traffic. Now it’s permanently car-free....
Controversial Chuitna coal mine 'shelved' after investor backs out.
PacRim had submitted a complete permitting packet to the state, according to Kirkham, who estimated it at "several thousand pages." DNR was getting ready...
California lawmakers shouldn't choke on diesel's gas tax win.
For a lesson in how Capitol politics works, take a look at the gasoline tax bill, and the trucking industry’s hand in it. By...
California should stay the environmental course.
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