Environment

Austin Acocella, co-owner of Acocella Landscaping in Westchester County, N.Y., is holding onto his gas-powered mowers. He says electric ride-ons are too expensive for him to switch right now.

Environment

Professional landscapers are reluctant to plug into electric mowers due to cost

10:29am July 30, 2022

by Matthew Schuerman

A heavy duty commercial electric mower with long-lasting batteries can cost nearly $30,000, more than three times what a comparable gas-powered machine sells for.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin struck a deal to include energy and climate spending in a party-line reconciliation bill.

Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism

1:19pm July 29, 2022

by Laura Benshoff

Democrats in Congress look ready to pass legislation with significant climate change elements that push the country closer to President Biden's ambitious goals.

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The delicious but endangered sea creature is getting the best help Aquilino can offer.

Behind this locked door is the white abalone's best chance of avoiding extinction

5:11am July 29, 2022

by Chad Campbell

Behind a black door and a sign that reads "Authorized Personnel Only" is a project that aims to bring the white abalone back from the brink of extinction.

Congress Democrats appear ready to pass new legislation with focus on climate change

7:41pm July 28, 2022

by Laura Benshoff

Democrats in Congress look ready to pass new legislation with significant climate change elements that push the country closer to President Biden's goals.

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Many Western states lack building codes that require wildfire-resistant materials, but a new study shows the cost can be minimal.

Environment

Fireproofing your home isn't very expensive — but few states require it

5:07pm July 28, 2022

by Lauren Sommer

Many Western states lack building codes for wildfire-resistant homes. But a new study finds the costs can be minimal, undercutting long-held building industry arguments against such codes.

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Sprite is ditching its iconic green bottle — but environmentalists say it's not enough

3:24pm July 28, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

For decades, the lemon-lime drink has come in green bottles — but clear plastic is more easily recycled, the company says. Environmentalists say the issue is not the color but the single-use plastic.

Maps of storm surge in Miami, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

These hurricane flood maps reveal the climate future for Miami, NYC and D.C.

12:07pm July 28, 2022

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

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Cleaning a great floating garbage patch the size of Texas

5:44pm July 27, 2022

The Kwai, a 140-foot cargo ship, just made a 45-day round trip from Hawaii and back. It's load? About 96 tons of trash from a floating garbage patch the size of Texas.

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Scientist and inventor James Lovelock poses with one of his early inventions, a homemade gas chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere, at a science museum in London.

James Lovelock, who theorized that Earth is a living organism, dies at 103

4:30pm July 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday.

Hundreds in northern Arizona are facing flooding

5:26pm July 26, 2022

by Michel Marizco

Arizona is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, but in one place there's too much water. Hundreds of homes in Flagstaff are threatened by brief monsoon thunderstorms on wildfire burn scars.

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