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HSBC Exits Net Zero Banking Alliance

HSBC announced that it has decided to withdraw from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), following its North American peers to become the first major...

Why Indonesia’s energy transition urgently needs robust fiscal policy

Progress towards Indonesia's renewables target has been slow. Rethinking energy subsidies and carbon pricing can hasten the shift of Southeast Asia's largest economy away...

A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.

As temperatures across New England soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, solar panels and batteries helped keep air conditioners running while reducing fossil-fuel generation...

‘Disasters are a human choice’: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas

Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high...

Inside New Orleans’ plan to fix its energy-hogging buildings

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in...

Climate Change Degrades Nutritional Value of Crops, Study Finds

Climate change is bad for food production in more ways than one. Aside from stress from extreme heat, drought and flooding, climate change is...

California Releases FAQ to Guide Companies Beginning Mandatory Climate Reporting

The California Air Resources Board (CARB), the regulator charged with developing and enforcing new regulations requiring large companies to disclose their value chain emissions...

British supermarket chain Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that it will provide £1m of funding to innovative projects supporting its journey to net-zero...

Seeing fewer fireflies this year? Here’s why, and how you can help.

It’s firefly season in the Blue Ridge.  As the sun goes down, they begin to blink and glow along the water, in the trees, and...

The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought

In the oceans, the most widespread type of plastic pollution may be the kind you can’t see. A new study published Wednesday in the journal...

Frontier Coalition Signs $41 Million Carbon Removal Deal with Bioenergy Startup Arbor

Carbon removal buyer coalition Frontier announced a new $41 million offtake agreement with bioenergy carbon capture & storage (BECCS) company storage Arbor, to remove...

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