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Refrigerators have gotten really freaking good. Thanks, Jimmy Carter.

By Rebecca Leber

There’s something different about the new gas stove influencer

By Rebecca Leber

Oil company profits are at a record high. It won’t last.

By Rebecca Leber

Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?

By Umair Irfan

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

By Neel Dhanesha
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Batteries are dirty. Geothermal power can help.

By Christina Thornell

Renewable energy, explained (to kids)

By Vox Staff

Fight climate change. End fossilflation. Here’s how.

By Rebecca Leber

This is what we need to invent to fight climate change

By Umair Irfan

The long-shot campaign to get big banks out of fossil fuels

By Rebecca Leber

Solar farms are often bad for biodiversity — but they don’t have to be

By Katherine Harmon Courage

The world’s biggest banks have pumped trillions into fossil fuel projects in the past 5 years

By Jariel Arvin

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change

By Jariel Arvin

Norway’s trillion-dollar wealth fund sold the last of its investments in fossil fuel companies

By Jariel Arvin

Democrats have made a puzzling decision to drop their demand to end fossil fuel subsidies

By Umair Irfan

How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly

By David Roberts

Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on fossil fuels

By David Roberts

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

By Jillian Weinberger, Amy Drozdowska, and 1 more

California solves batteries’ embarrassing climate problem

By David Roberts

Why climate activists disrupted the Harvard-Yale football game

By Umair Irfan

The University of California system is ending its investment in fossil fuels

By Umair Irfan

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.

By David Roberts

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

By Umair Irfan

Forget cars. We need electric airplanes.

By Umair Irfan

Batteries have a dirty secret

By David Roberts

Costa Rica has an ambitious new climate policy — but no, it’s not banning fossil fuels

By Umair Irfan

It’s time to think seriously about cutting off the supply of fossil fuels

By David Roberts
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This “duck curve” is solar energy’s greatest challenge

By Carlos Waters

The world’s bleak climate situation, in 3 charts

By David Roberts

Elon Musk bet that Tesla could build the world’s biggest battery in 100 days. He won.

By David Roberts

Solar eclipse 2017: how the solar power industry is prepping for a huge blip

By Annette Choi

Wind and solar power are saving Americans an astounding amount of money

By David Roberts

China just built a solar power array that looks like a panda

By Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna

Donald Trump is handing the federal government over to fossil fuel interests

By David Roberts

No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously

By David Roberts

Millions of used electric car batteries will help store energy for the grid. Maybe.

By David Roberts

The falling costs of US solar power, in 7 charts

By David Roberts

Here’s video of Facebook’s internet-beaming, solar-powered airplane in flight

By Kurt Wagner

Solar power is contagious. These maps show how it spreads.

By Brad Plumer

Here's what has to happen before solar power can take over the world

By Brad Plumer