Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault
If you’re struggling to walk more, know that it’s not necessarily a failure of willpower. Planners designed American cities not
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Clearing debris after a storm is big business. For some communities, it’s also a burden.
Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in Transylvania County, in the heart of the Blue Ridge
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After the Texas floods, when is the right time to ask what went wrong?
The finger-pointing began as soon as the waters started to recede. Within hours of last month’s floods in Kerr County,
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A startup promised 45,000 EV jobs to struggling towns. They’re still waiting.
They came with promises of transformation: thousands of jobs, surging salaries, and a foothold in the booming electric vehicle market.
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Trump administration reopens $5B EV charging program after losses in court
The Trump administration appears to be backing away from its fiercely contested efforts to freeze a $5 billion federal funding program
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The International Seabed Authority’s war with itself
For the last three decades, the United Nations’ agency called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in
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‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement
Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted
Read MoreCalifornia is sunsetting oil refineries without a plan for what’s next
Within the past year, two major California oil refineries have announced plans to shutter — moves that will pull about
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The Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet
In the fall of 1925, agronomist Trofim Lysenko arrived on the dusty plains of what is now Azerbaijan, hoping to
Read MoreInstalling heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion and 77,000 lives
For several years now, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to
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