Maui wildfires made Hawaii's housing market crisis worse — residents already feared being priced out

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An aerial view shows the historic Banyan Tree along with destroyed homes, boats, and buildings burned to the ground in the historic Lahaina town in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 10, 2023.
An aerial view shows the historic Banyan Tree along with destroyed homes, boats, and buildings burned to the ground in the historic Lahaina town in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Handbags and hats made of mushroom leather could become the next luxury items for brands like Hermès

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Designer wallets made of mushroom leather
MycoWorks makes is Reishi leather with mycelium, which can produce mushrooms.

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Extreme heat has cost the global economy $16 trillion on average, research shows

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Tourists cool off near a fan as they queue to enter Rome's Colosseum.
Tourists cool off near a fan as they queue to enter Rome's Colosseum on July 18.

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Passive House designs could cut your energy bill in half

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A rendering of a planned development build to Passive House standards.
A rendering of a Passive House project in Newton, Massachusetts provided by the developer by Northland.

Northland

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

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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

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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

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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.

John Bazemore/Associated Press

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

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Climate activists protest outside the Interior Department.

Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Sunrise AU

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.

Mickey Strider/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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