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    Electricity as the new eggs: Affordability concerns will swing the midterms just like the 2024 election, Bill McKibben says

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    Vail Resorts is having a very dry year: It reported a record‑low snowpack, forcing the company to lower its 2026 earnings outlook

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    January 16, 2026
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    Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite

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    Greenland’s 1.5 million tons of rare earths might never get mined because there just aren’t any roads to them

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    Angry town halls nationwide find a new villain: the data center driving up your electricity bill while fueling job-killing AI

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    January 3, 2026
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    ‘I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart'”: Trump talks health concerns, saying he takes more aspirin than recommended

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    January 2, 2026
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    ‘I opened her door and the wind caught me, and I went flying’: The U.S. Arctic air surge is sweeping northerners off their feet

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    December 30, 2025
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    Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK and cousin of Health Secretary RFK Jr., dies of cancer at 35

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    Georgia’s ‘America First’ license plates, Washington’s $17 minimum wage and Hawaii’s climate change tourist tax: new laws are on the books

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    December 30, 2025
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    ‘Almost impossible’: Another one of the hottest years on record brings previously unimaginable frequency of heat waves

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    December 30, 2025
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    Winter storm cancels more than 1,000 flights in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions as state of emergency declared in N.Y., N.J.

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    December 27, 2025
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    Hawaii’s Big Island cat lovers are furious about a feeding ban to protect an endangered goose species: ‘They’re both living creatures’

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    December 27, 2025
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    Why coyotes won’t become the new wolves and what it has to do with moose and beaver

    By Alex Jensen and The Conversation
    December 23, 2025
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    Trump administration puts offshore wind projects on hold, citing mysterious Pentagon national security warning

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    December 22, 2025
    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand
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    Solar power and battery storage are booming despite Trump policy whiplash as clean energy meets soaring data center demand

    By Jennifer McDermott and The Associated Press
    December 21, 2025
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    ‘Mother Nature has been dealing a really hard deck’: Western ski resorts struggle with a warm, snowless start to winter

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    Trump goes nuclear: The president’s tech and media umbrella will merge with a fusion reactor developer in a deal valued north of $6 billion

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    Ford CEO Jim Farley said Trump would halve the EV market by ending subsidies. Now he’s writing down $19.5 billion amid a ‘customer-driven’ shift

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    December 16, 2025
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