Why Eliminating Coal Could Take a Long Time

A mining and processing business in California is replacing one coal plant but says another could stay online for many years.

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Weed Manager of the Year: One Man’s Quest to Save the Sonoran Desert

As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is becoming more valuable.

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Tropical Cyclone Zelia Makes Landfall in Northwest Australia

The storm’s winds equaled those of a Category 4 hurricane, and residents were told to stay indoors to shelter from destructive winds and flooding.

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Nevada’s Lithium Could Help Save the Earth. But What Happens to Nevada?

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too great.

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Clinton Bailey, American-Israeli Who Preserved Bedouin Culture, Dies at 88

Armed with a camera and tape recorder, he spent decades documenting the ancient traditions of nomadic Bedouin tribes, creating a record of a vanishing culture.

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Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, U.N. Says

Human-caused global warming helped increase dry conditions on every continent, scientists said in a new report, as talks on halting desertification were underway in Saudi Arabia.

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