The former Michigan governor brings experience in promoting clean-energy manufacturing. She worked with the Obama administration on an automaker bailout that pushed investment in green technology.
On the United Nations' new Planetary Pressures-Adjusted Human Development Index, the United States drops 45 places from its overall ranking, a reflection of the country's outsize environmental impact.
More than 4,000 workers are expected in northern Minnesota over the next couple weeks to help build the contentious Line 3 oil pipeline replacement. At the same time, activists are escalating their efforts to block it, while law enforcement officials are trying to keep the peace.
America's beloved monarch butterfly is facing possible listing as a threatened species. The Trump administration is expected to announce this week if it supports protecting the monarch under the endangered species act.
Climate change is here. Experts say the time for prevention has passed, and we need to adapt—but what does that actually look like? This one-hour special from APM Marketplace, hosted by Molly Wood, explores the role of technology in helping humanity weather the impacts of climate change.
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Heat waves, air pollution and extreme weather are making people sick and, increasingly, killing people. A key report by global physicians says fossil fuels are to blame.
The report detailing climate events in 2020 reads like a list of shattered records. The most ever Atlantic named storms. Unequaled wildfires. Unprecedented Arctic heat. Melting ice, deadly floods and prolonged droughts.
Mysti Babineau, 34, is an organizer with climate change organization MN350 and an advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous people. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of climate and social justice issues.
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