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Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change
There’s no magic bill waiting in the wings—and no quick path to arriving at one.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?
“We’re a lot closer than we should be,” one Stanford scientist warned.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Indoor Man in the White House
In withdrawing the United States from the historic Paris Agreement, Donald Trump rewrote the future of the Earth’s climate.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Bizarre California Fire Threat Is Serious
Amid a political dispute with California politicians, the president threatened to cut off emergency relief to the state.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018, After Years of Stasis
It’s an ominous sign for America’s ability to meet its goals under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely
But experts warn that our overall picture of sea-level rise looks far scarier today than it did even five years ago.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Establish a New House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee
But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.
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Sandy Huffaker / Reuters The Southwest May Be Deep Into a Climate-Changed Mega-Drought
Global warming may have turned an already historic dry spell into the third-worst drought of the past 1,000 years.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ryan Zinke Is the Blue Wave’s First Casualty
The interior secretary’s departure shows the extent of the new Democratic power—and also its limits.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters An Upheaval at the Ends of the World
Two new reports find that the North and South Poles face an “unprecedented” climate future.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Aren’t Against Climate Action
Just because they oppose Emmanuel Macron’s proposed fuel-tax hike does not mean that the French activists will oppose any policy designed to fight climate change.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting
After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters It's Not Just America: Climate Policies Are Stumbling Worldwide
According to the UN, most major polluters are not on track to meet their Paris goals. But critics say that accounting may be too pessimistic.
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Noah Berger / Reuters A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday
In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters A Deadly Tsunami of Fire
California’s Camp Fire is still not contained, and the number of dead is still rising.
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Jonathan Ernst / Leah Millis / Alex Wong ... The New Politics of Climate Change
The dust is settling on the 2018 midterms—and no plan to fight global warming has emerged unscathed.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Simple Reason That Humans Can’t Control Wildfires
“The fire, to me—it’s like an ocean. It’s so strong that we don’t really stand a chance of doing much to it.”
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Eric Risberg / AP The Homeless Can’t Escape San Francisco’s Smoke-Ridden Air
As wildfires burn out of control, they are impacting the state’s other crisis—the growing number of people living on the streets.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Worst Is Yet to Come for California’s Wildfires
Two fires have left 31 people dead in the state. But even insurance companies think blazes will be bigger in just a few decades.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Interference With Science Is Unprecedented
Experts say that key EPA proposals would meddle with the research process and endanger decades of protective health rules.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The GOP Just Lost Its Most Important Climate Moderates
Almost 20 Republican House members who seemed to care about climate change failed to win reelection.
