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Climate change is hurting coral worldwide. But these reefs off the Texas coast are thriving.
Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world.
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Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes — if more people would eat it
Climate scientists have long said that eating more plants and fewer animals is among the simplest, cheapest and most readily available ways for people to reduce their impact on the environment.
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After years of waiting, Illinois monarch butterfly fans will finally get their specialty license plates
Due to concerns that the wide range of colorful specialty plates in the state were creating problems for law enforcement, Illinois went to a new system in 2015.
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Worsening warming is hurting people in all regions, US climate assessment shows
A massive new federal government report says revved-up climate change now permeates Americans’ daily lives with harms that are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the United States.
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Staffer recommends Illinois regulators deny approval for Wolf CO2 pipeline, one of 2 under consideration by state
Last month the Omaha-based company Navigator CO2 canceled its plan to build a 1,350-mile pipeline through Illinois and four other states.
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Greta Thunberg brushes off interruption at massive Dutch climate march days before election
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was briefly interrupted Sunday by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital.
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Midwest pollution spiked dramatically this summer because of Canadian wildfires. Now officials may erase those days from the books.
States consider banding together to request the worst days of wildfire smoke be excluded from air quality records.
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First-of-its-kind nuclear power project terminated in a blow to the Biden administration’s clean energy agenda
A project to build a first-of-a-kind small modular nuclear reactor power plant was terminated Wednesday.
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Last 12 months on Earth were the hottest ever recorded, analysis finds
Over the course of the year, 7.3 billion people, or 90% of humanity, endured at least 10 days of high temperatures that were made at least three times more likely because of climate change.
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‘Wearing a tree kind of broke down a barrier’: Monee nursery workers promote the importance and beauty of native plants
Possibility Place Nursery grows 120 different species of native trees and shrubs and plants over 18,000 each year.
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How much did Navigator’s defeat cost the Midwest?
Experts debate how many jobs and how much money the Navigator project would have brought to the Midwest.
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Illinois farmers and environmentalists celebrate the defeat of $3 billion CO2 pipeline: ‘We have thrown so many stones at Goliath’
Navigator faced major obstacles, including strikingly strong opposition from Illinois farmers, who in some cases rejected offers of over $100,000 to allow the pipeline to run through their land.
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Illinois EPA accepting applications for $4,000 EV rebates, but money for program likely to run out quickly
The Illinois EPA urges people to submit their applications for the electric vehicle rebate program quickly, because “substantial interest” and lower funding for the popular program means they will likely send out fewer checks.
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After October festivities, Illinoisans smash thousands of pumpkins to divert them from landfills, cut methane
After being squashed, the pumpkins are sent to processing centers to be turned into compost.
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Stage set for conflict at COP28 with mixed response to outcome of key climate talks
Tense negotiations at the final meeting on a climate-related loss and damages fund — an international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet — ended Saturday in Abu Dhabi, with participants agreeing that the World Bank would temporarily host the fund for the next four years.
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Offshore wind projects face economic storm. Cancellations jeopardize Biden clean energy goals
The cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardizing the Biden administration’s goals of powering 10 million homes from towering ocean-based turbines by 2030 and establishing a carbon-free electric grid five years later.
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Chicago to get $336 million loan from EPA to replace 30,000 lead water pipes
Money provided by the EPA would replace 30,000 of the roughly 400,000 lead pipes known as service lines connecting homes and two-flats to the municipal water system.
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Shedd Aquarium researchers report mass bleaching of coral reefs in warming Florida oceans: ‘Like a forest without trees’
The Shedd has been studying heat tolerance in corals for several years, and been helping in international conservation efforts for endangered Caribbean corals for over a decade.
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Chicago-area environmental activists, experts seek to protect region’s trees after bur oak removal in Kane County
A group of activists who protested to stop the removal of bur oak trees near west suburban Geneva, hope their efforts will prompt counties and towns in the Chicago area to enact strong tree preservation ordinances.
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1.6 million acres of Great Plains grasslands were destroyed in 2021 alone, World Wildlife Fund says
Since 2012, the region has seen 32 million acres of its landscapes destroyed, according to the environmental group.