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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump Is Thinking of Buying a Giant Socialist Island
The president has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland for the United States.
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Ilya Naymushin / Reuters A Worrisome Discovery in High Arctic Snowfall
Snow from the Far North can contain thousands of particles of microplastic, a new study finds.
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Tom Brenner/Getty Images Five Stories We’re Watching
Atlantic writers look ahead at gun-control momentum, Kashmir’s status change, the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein, and more.
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Brook Mitchell / Getty This Land Is the Only Land There Is
Here are seven ways of understanding the IPCC’s newest climate warning.
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Leah Millis / Reuters How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis
The Federal Reserve should act aggressively to reduce that risk, a leading economic historian argues.
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Scott Olson / Reuters ‘Nobody Should Get Applause for Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords’
Democrats have figured out how to talk about climate change with urgency and air real differences among the candidates’ ideas for dealing with it.
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Jim Watson / Reuters Andrew Yang Is Not Your Climate Friend
Fleeing to “higher ground” isn’t an adaptation policy.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Climate Change Can’t Be Left to the Scientists
Steve Bullock just wasn’t right.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters No Climate Event in 2,000 Years Compares to What’s Happening Now
While parts of the world have warmed or cooled in the past, modern climate change is happening just about everywhere at the same time.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Here Comes the Bad Season
It’s not just this heat wave. July 2019 is likely to be the hottest month ever measured.
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Ford / Unicode Consortium / The Atlantic The World Is Getting a Pickup-Truck Emoji
Thanks to Ford
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Noah Berger / Getty California’s Wildfires Are 500 Percent Larger Due to Climate Change
“Each degree of warming causes way more fire than the previous degree of warming did. And that’s a really big deal.”
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Jacquelyn Martin / Reuters The Plan to Fix Climate Change in the Senate
Democrats are trying to do their prep work now so they can hit the ground running if they win a majority in 2021.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Air Really Was Cleaner Under Obama
Pollution is up nearly 14 percent under the Trump administration.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Green New Deal Finally Makes a Debate Appearance
Kamala Harris is the first candidate to endorse the big idea that’s reanimated climate policy.
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Mike Segar / Reuters / Shutterstock / The ... Democrats Still Don’t Know How to Talk About Climate Change
They did try, though.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters It’s Younger and Cooler Than a Carbon Tax
The Green New Deal is surprisingly popular.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Don’t Overthink a Climate-Change Debate
Of course Democratic candidates should square off on the issue. Here’s what a moderator should ask.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters The Think Tank Struggling to Write the Green New Deal
New Consensus, the group charged with fleshing out the plan, doesn’t aim to publish policy specifics until early next year.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Green New Deal Has Already Won
The far-left policy has shifted the climate debate—and what now counts as “moderate” is surprisingly muscular.
