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A North Carolina beach house collapses into the ocean.
Environment

Outer Banks homes are collapsing due to climate change, but U.S. coastal property values are booming anyway

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June 3, 2024
Plastic Pollution on Landfill Site.
Environment

America’s landfills are ‘garbage lasagnas’—fetid layers of waste oozing dangerous methane, scientists found

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May 22, 2024
woman looks at car crushed by fallen bricks
Environment

Houston storm knocked out electricity to nearly 1 million users and left several dead, including a man who tried to power an oxygen tank with his car

By Lekan Oyekanmi, David J. Phillip and The Associated Press
May 18, 2024
Lush redwoods and cypress trees in view as the Pacific Coast Highway reopens after rockslide deluge
Environment

Lush redwoods and cypress trees in view as the Pacific Coast Highway reopens after rockslide deluge

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May 17, 2024
Brands that teens once heralded as the epitome of trendy and fast fashion—think Abercrombie, Forever 21, and Shein—are now tapping into the $14 billion bridal-gown market.
Retail

Shein and Abercrombie are disrupting the $14 billion bridal gown market with cheap dresses—but where brides save, the world is paying full price

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May 14, 2024
Skiers in a chairlift looking at a snowless mountain.
Environment

Traders have turned betting on the weather, a technique pioneered by Enron, into a booming $25 billion market

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May 8, 2024
Gen Z environmentalists fail to convince government to even try their case about constitutional right to life-sustaining climate
Environment

Gen Z environmentalists fail to convince government to even try their case about constitutional right to life-sustaining climate

By Gene Johnson and The Associated Press
May 2, 2024
Microsoft inks $10 billion green energy deal as power-hungry AI forces its hand to meet emissions commitments
Environment

Microsoft inks $10 billion green energy deal as power-hungry AI forces its hand to meet emissions commitments

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May 1, 2024
A man in a white lab coat holds up and looks into a petri dish filled with white blobs.
Retail

Finland—the world’s No. 1 coffee consumer—is turning to AI and lab-grown beans to energize the industry

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April 22, 2024
Esther Duflo accepting her Nobel prize in 2019
Finance

Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan

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April 20, 2024
New York City street.
Environment

New York is shook. But how can an earthquake hit in the middle of a tectonic plate? 

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April 5, 2024
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Environment

Protests, pandemics, and prices push Europe into reforming its Green Deal

By Ewa Krukowska and Bloomberg
April 5, 2024
SEC Chair Gary Gensler
Finance

SEC chief Gary Gensler is getting hit from all sides on his new climate rule: Conservative AGs smell blood, while environmentalists say it doesn’t go far enough

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March 14, 2024
Young women are pranking their dads by saying they’re going to work on oil rigs. The responses are heartwarming: ‘Money can’t bring your life back.’
Lifestyle

Young women are pranking their dads by saying they’re going to work on oil rigs. The responses are heartwarming: ‘Money can’t bring your life back.’

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February 27, 2024
Houses overlooking a cliff in Dana Point, California, where houses recently fell victim to landslides
Finance

A wealthy doctor refuses to leave his $16 million mansion even though it could fall into the Pacific Ocean

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February 27, 2024

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