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Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say.

For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But February marked a particularly unsettling record for the ocean: Average global sea surfaces climbed to the hottest temperatures ever recorded of any month since at least 1979, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

Corals Have ‘No Reprieve’ as the Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event

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Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far

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Midwestern electricity ratepayers will pay the still-mounting tab under a plan Consumers Energy reported to regulators and investors.

The Trump administration’s emergency order to keep the huge J.H. Campbell coal plant on Lake Michigan operating past its planned retirement date has cost at least $80 million since May, its operator, Consumers Energy, told regulators and investors this week.

Trump’s Order to Keep Michigan Coal Plant Running Has Cost $80 Million So Far

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CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk

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Tons of coal and diesel fuel spilled into wetlands that are hard to access to cleanup.

A train derailment last Saturday dumped coal and diesel fuel into wetlands near the Chickahimony River in Virginia, and nearby residents and environmentalists worry that the contaminants could flow into the waterway.

CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk

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A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

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Deep River Data, with ties to cryptocurrency, says it would use the extracted gas to power a data center for “AI workloads,” not crypto mines.

A company with connections to the cryptocurrency industry is considering drilling for natural gas near the Deep River north of Sanford in Lee County, North Carolina.

A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well

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