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There’s something different about the new gas stove influencer

Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.

Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

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Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

Fight climate change. End fossilflation. Here’s how.

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels

Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be

The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change

Norway’s trillion-dollar wealth fund sold the last of its investments in fossil fuel companies

Democrats have made a puzzling decision to drop their demand to end fossil fuel subsidies

How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly

Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on fossil fuels

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

California solves batteries’ embarrassing climate problem

Why climate activists disrupted the Harvard-Yale football game

The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

Forget cars. We need electric airplanes.

Batteries have a dirty secret

Costa Rica has an ambitious new climate policy — but no, it’s not banning fossil fuels

It’s time to think seriously about cutting off the supply of fossil fuels

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This “duck curve” is solar energy’s greatest challenge

The world’s bleak climate situation, in 3 charts

Elon Musk bet that Tesla could build the world’s biggest battery in 100 days. He won.

Solar eclipse 2017: how the solar power industry is prepping for a huge blip

Wind and solar power are saving Americans an astounding amount of money

China just built a solar power array that looks like a panda

Donald Trump is handing the federal government over to fossil fuel interests

No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously

Millions of used electric car batteries will help store energy for the grid. Maybe.

The falling costs of US solar power, in 7 charts

Here’s video of Facebook’s internet-beaming, solar-powered airplane in flight

Solar power is contagious. These maps show how it spreads.

Here's what has to happen before solar power can take over the world

Why the "duck curve" created by solar power is a problem for utilities