A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Phoenix Species Project Announces Funds for Imperiled Wildlife

A new fund called the Phoenix Species Project will provide $200 million to help pull imperiled wildlife back from the brink of extinction.

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Leopards recover in Zambia as communities swap skins for synthetics

Conservationists say a switch from real leopard skins to synthetic furs in traditional ceremonies has helped reduce poaching and boost leopard numbers in western Zambia

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India's capital part of aggressive electric vehicle targets in bid to curb air pollution

Delhi has adopted a new policy to make most new vehicles electric, aiming to improve air quality. The plan includes subsidies, tax waivers, and incentives for scrapping old vehicles.

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A wind turbine blade can run beyond 170 feet, and when it wears out a Tennessee company bakes the whole thing down to recover the clean glass fiber the industry once paid to bury

Picture a blade taller than a 15-storey building, curved and white, leaning against a sky it spent two decades slicing through.

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Species Conservation is Scaling Up as Five Global Trends Transform Wildlife Recovery | Happy Eco News

A new IUCN Save Our Species update identifies five major trends driving the scaling up of species conservation worldwide: advances in science, Indigenous leadership, ecosystem restoration, cross-secto...

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Dam Removal Efforts Lead to a Stunning Comeback for Maine’s Alewives - Inside Climate News

Along most of the Atlantic coast, alewives are struggling after decades of damming and overfishing. But in Maine, the fish is rebounding—and towns’ historic harvests are growing.

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Red wolves, once nearly wiped out, had a spring baby boom in North Carolina

The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.

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Parima Validates Commercial-Scale Cultivated Meat Production with Vow

French cultivated meat leader Parima has demonstrated tonne-scale production at viable cost economics on a 22,000-litre line run by Australia's Vow.

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Australia’s Cutest Banded Anteater Is Finally on the Mend After 40 Years of Conservation

From 300 animals to thousands the numbat is fighting back.

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Coalition celebrates PC(USA)'s approval of fossil fuel divestment overture

Press release: Supporters of CLJ-02 call the General Assembly's approval of a plan to divest most fossil fuel investments by 2030 a historic milestone after 12 years of advocacy.

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Millions of Old EV Batteries Could Get a Second Life Helping Power The Grid

Retired EV batteries may help solve the grid’s storage problem.

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On the brink of extinction, the Javan green magpie gets a conservation lifeline

Teetering on the brink of extinction, Indonesia’s Javan green magpie may have a conservation lifeline after national and international conservation NGOs launched an action plan to preserve it in the w...

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Hawaiian Ahupua'a Food System Restoration Revives Ancient Terraces Feeding Communities Through Indigenous Water Management | Happy Eco News

Hawaiian ahupua'a food system restoration uncovered hundreds of stone terraces beneath invasive forests where native Hawaiians reclaimed land after a 30-year resistance movement.

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The long and winding road to safe highways: Inside the global movement to reconnect habitat

One of the busiest highways in the western U.S. is I-25, a concrete artery that runs north to south across the state of Colorado, funneling roughly 100,000 cars per day through the fast-growing exurbs...

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Alty pledges $1.2M to clean up farmland returning to Kahnawà:ke

Leadership hailed a deal to clean up farmland being returned to Kahnawà:ke. They say it's a vital advancement in their Land Back efforts.

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Iowa City’s free buses are getting people out of cars » Yale Climate Connections

Transit ridership jumped more than 40% after the city eliminated fares.

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How an NYC high-rise is keeping cool with geothermal energy

New York City’s green building laws are pushing developers toward cleaner technologies — even as state policymakers backtrack on climate change targets.

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Who Speaks for the Trees? A Tiny Quebec Town.

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Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Michael R. Bloomberg & Teresa Ribera tout a new initiative that helps mayors access technical expertise and finance to accelerate progress.

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Rewilding Rio: Conservationists restock an ‘empty forest,’ one species at a time

In 2008, biologist Alexandra Pires had just completed her doctoral thesis, which described how agoutis, a large guinea pig-like rodent, were important for the regeneration of plant species in Brazil’s...

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Building bridges for human-wildlife coexistence: Interview with Yap Jo Leen

TANJUNG BUNGAH, Malaysia — When Yap Jo Leen was tracking dusky langurs in the forests of Penang for her master’s degree in 2016, she watched a langur they called Towkay Soh — Hokkien for “lady boss” —...

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