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When buying a cold-weather heat pump, Hawes says to check the lowest temperature rating, make sure the condenser has a base pan heater so it doesn’t freeze up, and look at the heating seasonal ...

Electric heat pumps are rapidly gaining popularity. That’s good for the climate because they’re efficient and can run on clean electricity when it’s available. But their widespread use means power ...

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Michael E. Mann speaks at the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne Australia, in February 2020. (Photo credit: Julian Meehan / CC BY-NC 2.0) Michael E. Mann has served on the front lines of ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

Imagine a home so efficient that it could be heated with a hair dryer. That’s the promise of a passive house, a design standard that’s becoming increasingly popular in the architecture community for ...

In 2023, the fast fashion giant Shein was everywhere. Crisscrossing the globe, airplanes ferried small packages of its ultra-cheap clothing from thousands of suppliers to tens of millions of customer ...

When homeowners in Illinois see a freshly dug hole in their lawn, few suspect it’s an armadillo. But in recent decades, these small, armored animals have established populations as far north as ...

Since 2015, Seattle has lowered speed limits across much of its road network, setting residential streets at 20 miles per hour and most larger urban corridors at 25 miles per hour. After these changes ...

Skincare has always been more challenging in the summer. And climate change has raised the level of difficulty, with frequent hot spells and more exposure to pollution from wildfires that can damage ...

Growing up in suburban Ohio, I was used to seeing farmland and woods disappear to make room for new subdivisions, strip malls, and big box stores. I didn’t usually welcome the changes, but I assumed ...