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Tesla's energy storage business was the highlight of its blowout earnings, and Elon Musk says it's 'growing like wildfire'
Energy storage accounts for almost 10% of total Tesla revenue so far in 2024. Elon Musk sees it as …
Tom Carter
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Americans are so desperate for cheaper houses that they're willing to live in flood and wildfire zones
Cheaper housing and a lower cost of living has lured many Americans into regions of the country mos…
Eliza Relman
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Big banks promised to protect the planet. Now they're doing an about-face.
Big banks and asset managers are a powerful force in fighting the climate crisis, but many of them …
Catherine Boudreau
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How did the wildfires start in Canada?
Hundreds of wildfires have spread across the Canadian east and west coasts. Climate change didn't i…
Marianne Guenot
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Maui fire update: At least 93 dead as wildfires ravage Hawaii, authorities say
The Maui fires have killed 93 so far, officials said. Lahaina has been impacted. Hawaii's Lt. Gov. …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Canada needs to use the Indigenous practice of prescribed burning for wildfire prevention, experts say
Indigenous communities have used prescribed burning for thousands of years to maintain forest healt…
Katie Hawkinson
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Maui's animal shelters shipped more than 100 pets to Oregon to make room for animals injured in the wildfires
Over 130 cats and dogs from Maui animal shelters were relocated to Portland, Oregon, after the Hawa…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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How to make a DIY air cleaner that can filter wildfire smoke indoors
Wildfires in Canada have sent plumes of smoke into North American cities, including New York.
Amber Middleton
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Multiple Maui residents had to be rescued after jumping into the ocean to escape wildfires sweeping the island, officials say
A wildfire is spreading rapidly across Hawaii's Big Island and Maui due to winds from Hurricane Dor…
Rebecca Cohen
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Wildfires burn more than 100,000 acres in Arizona, hundreds evacuated
Two massive wildfires blazing in Arizona have triggered evacuation orders for hundreds of people as…
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Hawaii natives are begging tourists to stay away from Maui after devastating wildfires killed at least 99 people
Wildfires devastated Maui last week, and it's reignited a longstanding tension between Hawaii local…
Charissa Cheong
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On Maui, a perfect storm of climate, colonialism, and failed emergency systems made the deadliest US wildfire in over a century
Maui has faced a high risk of dangerous fires for years, but the perfect storm of unlucky weather a…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Hawaii's Big Island was scorched by a record-setting wildfire that burned over 40,000 acres
"It's the biggest [fire] we've ever had on this island," Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth said, accordin…
Natalie Musumeci
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The life-changing power of the strike: How 500,000 workers refused to work in 2023 — and won big
Like the post-WWII era, the post-pandemic years united workers who underwent a collective experienc…
Alex Press
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Oregon's Bootleg Fire is so big it's generating dangerous fire clouds and firestorms that can spark their own lightning
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it can create fire clouds and pyrocumulonimbus storms - eno…
Aylin Woodward
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Joe Manchin blocked climate spending so the national debt won't crush his grandkids. His legacy risks handing them much bigger problems.
"Your legacy is being written as the man who burned the earth," one climate activist said. Record-b…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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A tourist in Maui only realized wildfires were ravaging the area when she found out she had 'no way home' after a day trip
"After Road to Hana, we were like, 'let's go home,' and that's when we realized that there's no way…
Sonam Sheth
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The public won't be allowed back to Big Basin Redwoods Park for at least year after wildfires in California made it too dangerous for visitors
Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the park, observing at the forest littered with debris and damage that wil…
Frank Carber
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The wildfires currently raging in the US have burned a combined area bigger than Delaware
Fires in 13 states have collectively burned 2,104 square miles of land, destroying an area larger t…
Kelly McLaughlin
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People are flocking to Colorado for the great outdoors, but air pollution is leading to more days when residents are stuck inside
Traffic, oil and gas, and wildfires are taking a toll on the fresh mountain air of Colorado, where …