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The LA fires burned a lot of lithium-ion batteries. What does that say about a clean energy future?
Lithium–ion batteries have been making headlines since the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires broke out a month ago. From concerns about evacuating in an electric vehicle, to the challenges of ...
Column: Forget Trump’s wrecking ball. Here’s how to treat America’s public lands
Russell Scofield remembers when federal officials first started getting applications to build solar farms on public lands. It ...
Map shows rising wildfire threat across the U.S.: See if you're affected
A combination of hotter and drier weather and more people living in places that naturally burn are making things complicated.
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Map shows rising wildfire threat across the U.S.: See if you're affected
Parts of metros in Utah, Florida, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada are also very high-risk zones. For example ... Beyond metropolitan areas, FEMA maps show high-risk places in states not ...
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Improved radon gas mapping finds nearly 25% of Americans living in highest risk areas
Efforts to map radon ... Zone 2 (37–74 Bq/m 3) cuts across the country, keeping just south of Colorado and Kansas, as it crosses Oklahoma, northern Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, circling ...
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Gulf of America? Two can play at that game
The Gulf of America? Mexico? Maybe it's time for the Southerners to strike back and rename what America stole.
How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
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Do you live in a fire-risk area? These maps show high-risk zones.
The fires were fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, and climate change also plays a ... You can zoom in and hover over counties on the maps below to explore the risk level in your area.
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
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At Phoenix’s Far Edge, a Housing Boom Grasps for Water
More than 1 million people could pour into western Maricopa County in the coming decades – if housing developers can secure ...