Environment

Environment

"You're always taught to be extra, extra quiet and careful because they're so sensitive. This is our means of staying healthy and connected to the land and our culture."

Energy audits are good at counting electricity, not behavior. They rarely capture how power behaves under stress, missing critical factors like voltage changes and harmonic distortion.

The cost to build a new combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant has risen from less than $1,500 per kilowatt of generating capacity in 2023 to $2,157 last year, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.

Joel Jackson described the Tongass as 'the most beautiful cathedral you will ever walk into,' emphasizing its importance to the Kake community and their ancestral ties to the land.

For generations, Indigenous peoples have protected the world's most intact ecosystems without satellites, without algorithms or technologies. AI can become a powerful ally to that stewardship, if it is used on our terms in a culturally appropriate way.

The mudslide in Petropolis in February 2022 killed 233 people, and displaced many more. Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have displaced 250 million people globally, equivalent to 70,000 people forced from their homes every day.

Roughly 20 million barrels per day of oil moved through Hormuz in 2024, equivalent to about one-fifth of global petroleum liquids consumption. When that waterway closed, oil prices spiked to $126 per barrel in what the U.S. Energy Information Administration has described as the largest supply disruption in global oil market history.

Compostable packaging is a type of biodegradable packaging designed to break down alongside natural waste. It's usually made of plant-based materials, like corn syrup, cellulose, or paper, that decompose without leaving toxins behind.

Inoke Tora, a traditional landowner, expressed strong opposition to the incinerator plan, stating, 'There are hundreds of people living in villages in this place and they fish each day, eat fresh crabs. They call that beach paradise.'