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Energy Secretary Wright ‘passionately’ ignorant about Northwest hydropower

The U.S. built more than 1,000 hydroelectric dams over the last century. These dams are as different in size, shape and function as the rivers where they were built. Their social and environmental costs and benefits also differ. Tribes, states, and hundreds of thousands of Americans have recently pushed to remove four federally-owned dams on […]

Earth is absorbing too much sunlight: It’s a waking climate giant

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Albedo is the reflection of sunlight back into space, mainly from bright surfaces such as clouds, snow, ice and atmospheric particles, providing an essential planetary cooling shield. However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy imbalance, has doubled since 2005. Satellite data reported in this study shows

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