Don't call the extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires 'the new normal'

Tech Insider : Climate Crisis
A person tries to cool off by pressing a cold towel to his face.
Phoenix on Wednesday had a record 20 consecutive days of temperatures reaching 110 degrees or beyond.

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Microsoft bets that a fusion power plant from Helion Energy will be operating this decade

Tech Insider : Technology, Climate Crisis
A side view of the Polaris prototype fusion reactor from Helion
Polaris is a prototype fusion reactor from Helion Energy. The startup announced a deal with Microsoft to provide the tech giant with electricity produced from fusion.

Helion

Oliver Stone says you should be more worried about the climate crisis than the risks of using nuclear power

Tech Insider : Climate Crisis
Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant
Georgia Power Co. said Monday that a second new reactor had completed a testing phase at the company's Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant near Waynesboro, Georgia.

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Youth climate activists plan to protest the biggest social event for Washington's political-media class

Tech Insider : Politics, Climate Crisis
Climate activists protest outside the Interior Department.

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Companies are selling us more stuff by telling us it's 'sustainable'

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grocery store aisle with milk at the end
Over the past year, consumers bought more than 13.6 billion products marketed as sustainable for a total of $73 billion, NielsenIQ found.

Rena Goldman

The glut of parking spaces in the US is driving up housing costs and hurting the environment

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Cracked parking lot in front of vacant shopping center
Parking spaces in the US take up as much land as Connecticut and Vermont combined.

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I took ThredUp's Fashion Footprint quiz. My annual shopping habits equaled driving 614 miles in a gas-powered car.

Tech Insider : Climate Crisis
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A ThredUp sorting facility in Phoenix.

AP Photo/Matt York

Fossil fuels are the new nukes: Pacific island nations at risk from rising sea levels support a nonproliferation treaty for oil and gas

Tech Insider : Politics
The coast along the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu
Satellite data show the sea level has risen about 6 mm per year around Vanuatu since 1993, a rate nearly twice the global average.

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A climate tech CEO took calls from an airplane bathroom to try and save his company when his bank collapsed

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An aerial view of a community solar farm.

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune

Companies that mine copper are making plans to go green so they can help the rest of the world do the same

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A giant truck hauls ore
A group of companies that produce copper outlined plans to clean up their operations and energy use.

Rick Bowmer/Associated Press

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