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Vincenzo Pinto / Getty The Ancient Math That Sets the Date of Easter and Passover
Why don’t the two holidays always coincide? It is, to some degree, the moon’s fault.
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Ivan Alvarado / Reuters The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred in 1950
Sixty-nine years ago, a new geological era may have begun on Earth.
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Claire Bentley / Planet What Spy-Satellite Companies Can Teach NASA About Climate Change
The space agency is exploring what three Earth-observation start-ups can teach it about the planet.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters On Climate, Democrats Now Have a Plan to Make a Plan
Starting with a new bill that would keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement
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Andrew Harnik / Reuters The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal
They contributed to its decisive defeat in the Senate on Tuesday, 57–0.
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Lindsey Wasson / Reuters America Cares About Climate Change Again
For the first time in years, a broad spectrum of climate advocates is playing offense.
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Carlos Gutierrez / Reuters The Very Optimistic New Argument for Dimming the Sky
Geo-engineering won’t hurt a bit, at least compared with climate change—and it deserves serious investigation, according to the authors of a recent study.
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Deyan Georgiev / Manu Padilla / Shutterstock / ... A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth
The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters There Really, Really Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Climate Change
Nuclear power might be part of a Green New Deal, but it can’t meet all U.S. energy needs.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why Americans Might Never Notice Climate Change’s Hotter Weather
A person fretting about a “scorching” day might find the same temperature unremarkable within five years, a new study finds.
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Reuters The 3 Big Things That People Misunderstand About Climate Change
David Wallace-Wells, author of the new book The Uninhabitable Earth, describes why climate change might alter our sense of time.
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John Trumbull / Caitlin Ochs / Eric Vidall ... A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The East Coast Is Going to Get Arkansas-ified
A new study finds the climate “twin city” for hundreds of places across the United States.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Jeff Bezos Wrote a Blog Post
He blogs now.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Millennial Era of Climate Politics Has Arrived
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outlines the fuzzy edges of a new “green dream.”
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NASA / NOAA / CIRES Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
The polar vortex is just the latest example of how reliable five-day forecasts have become.
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Reuters 7 Reasons Democrats Won’t Pass a Green New Deal
The task is enormous, and the path is narrow.
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David Gray / Reuters The World Just Experienced the Four Hottest Years on Record
NASA and NOAA are both shut down, so outside scientists affirmed the milestone this week.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Unprecedented Surge in Fear About Climate Change
More Americans than ever are worried about climate change, but they’re not willing to pay much to stop it.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters There’s Snow on TV, so Trump’s Tweeting About Climate Change
Alas, a brief cold spell does not undo decades of scientific fact.
