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This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation website.

An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows

1:01pm October 12, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

This year's MacArthur Fellows include scientists, artists and historians. The so-called MacArthur "geniuses" receive unrestricted grants of $800,000 for their "exceptional creativity" and "promise."

Could steam heat, long used by cities and colleges, be a solution to climate change?

4:19pm October 10, 2022

by Susan Phillips

Beneath the streets of hundreds of North America's oldest cities lies a network of pipes delivering steam heat to office buildings and hospitals. These steam loops could be a clean energy solution.

A satellite image shows Tropical Storm Julia, bottom right, at 4 p.m. EDT. Julia is gaining strength heading westward in the southern Caribbean.

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Hurricane Julia brushes Colombia's San Andrés island and heads for Nicaragua

9:06pm October 08, 2022

by The Associated Press

The storm is forecast to dump heavy rains across Central America.

"Wrecked shrimp boats and other vessels littered the waterfront on San Carlos Island, Fort Myers Beach, FL, one week after Hurricane Irma made landfall.

Shutting an agency managing sprawl might have put more people in Hurricane Ian's way

5:00am October 08, 2022

More than a decade ago, growth in Florida was managed under a statewide agency that provided checks and balances to prevent sprawl and protect natural resources. Then state leaders closed it.

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Mike Ancona is operations manager for Vicinity Energy's co-generation plant.

'Steam loops' under many cities could be a climate change solution

5:28pm October 07, 2022

by Susan Phillips

"Steam loops" under hundreds of U.S. cities and universities have warmed buildings for a century. Now they could become a climate change solution.

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The first cobalt mine in America in decades is opening in Idaho

4:46pm October 07, 2022

by Kirk Siegler

The first cobalt mine in America in decades opens Friday in Idaho. The metal used in electric vehicle batteries is in big demand yet analysts say the environmental costs are also high.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says international development banks need new strategies to help countries finance the transition to low-carbon sources of energy like this rooftop solar project in Jordan.

Yellen says development banks need overhauling to deal with global challenges

7:15pm October 06, 2022

by Michael Copley

Development banks need new strategies to address problems that cut across national borders, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

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Bonita Springs deputy mayor on damage left behind by Hurricane Ian

4:25pm October 06, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Deputy Mayor Mike Gibson of Bonita Springs, Fla., on the extent of the damage done there by Hurricane Ian.

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California is going to take 9% less water from the Colorado River

4:25pm October 06, 2022

by Alex Hager

California is going to take 9% less water from the Colorado River at the request of the federal government, to keep Lake Mead from falling below the level necessary to generate hydropower.

DeSoto County Commissioner J.C. Deriso turns his airboat around before heading out to help hurricane survivors stranded on newly-created islands brought on by the flooding Peace River.

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When flooding from Ian trapped one Florida town, an airboat navy came to the rescue

3:05pm October 06, 2022

by Quil Lawrence

After Hurricane Ian dumped record levels of rain across Florida, rivers flooded, leaving thousands stranded on newly created islands.

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