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Maryland County Adopts a Two-year Moratorium on Data Center Development
Maryland’s second largest county is the latest jurisdiction in the state to slam the brakes on data centers. Prince George’s County on Tuesday adopted a two-year moratorium on development of the serve
France tests reflective roofs and green spaces to cool cities
France faces worsening heatwaves, exposing its cities' poor adaptation despite record temperatures, as aging infrastructure traps heat and strains resources. Cities are exploring low-cost solutions li
Climate change, overfishing threaten Mauritania’s Imraguen fishing heritage
Climate change and industrial overfishing are destroying Mauritania’s Banc d’Arguin ecosystem, threatening the Imraguen people’s ancient, sustainable fishing heritage. This crisis risks erasing a uniq
Texas data centers, feeding AI growth, are rapidly building minimally regulated gas plants to meet power demands, risking increased pollution and costs for res…
New York City redirected $20 million from congestion pricing to combat asthma in the Bronx, where childhood hospitalization rates are among the highest due to …
Four years ago, the New York State Legislature made a major move to better protect wetlands. Now some of those safeguards are delayed for potentially several m…
Oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide long after visible growth stops, storing it in roots and branches rather than converting it to wood. This means forests…
Two baby raccoons disrupted a Dodgers game at Dodger Stadium before being safely trapped; no injuries occurred, and the game continued. Urban wildlife frequent…
Volkswagen uses 100 sheep to maintain grass at its 150-hectare solar farm in Poznań, Poland, cutting costs and pioneering agrivoltaics to boost biodiversity an…
The U.S. Forest Service Tuesday approved a proposed mine in southern Arizona that will extract up to five critical minerals and was the first added to a progra…
Inside Climate News is a finalist for the Oakes Award for its “Planet China” series, which exposes the ecological damage from China’s Belt and Road Initiative.…
What if companies affected by government efforts to protect the environment could get international arbitrators to award them billion-dollar payouts? That’s ex…
Cloud seeding off South America’s coast could weaken El Niño by cooling ocean temperatures, a *Science Advances* study found, but risks like "termination shock…
The East Pacific Rise experienced a sudden, four-day burst of seafloor spreading in 2022, spreading nearly two inches—challenging the belief that such changes …
