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Why Trump Can’t Make Coal Great Again By Michelle Nijhuis Long-term market forces will keep miners from getting their jobs back. But Trump could slow the decline of coal—and the rise of renewables.

Fuel of the Future By John O’Dell Cars with small on-board generators, advanced batteries or tanks of hydrogen will one day be as plentiful as gasoline vehicles are today.

A World Without Large Animals? By Elizabeth Kolbert Thanks to human activities—deforestation, climate change, and overharvesting, whether legal or not—species are disappearing so fast it’s often said the world is entering a sixth…

Untangling the Many Ways Ocean Acidification Harms Marine Life By Craig Welch From the ability of sharks to sniff out food, to how well clownfish see and hear, to whether snails can escape being eaten by sea…

Can Brazil Have Its Food and Its Forest Too? By Hillary Rosner No country exemplifies more acutely the knot of challenges our planet faces.

What to Learn from the California Drought? By Michelle Nijhuis There’ll Be Another

An Existential Question for Miami By Laura Parker Can It Adapt to Rising Seas?

How climate change is hitting India By Michael Edison Hayden India’s energy future could tip the scales of global climate change, but the extreme weather is already here.