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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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Elaine Thompson / AP Will Washington State Voters Make History on Climate Change?
The state could be the first in the union to adopt a carbon price by ballot.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Why the Wildfires of 2018 Have Been So Ferocious
It’s the heat, not the humidity.
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Lee Celano / Reuters Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League
A massive new study of online dating finds that everyone dates aspirationally—and that a woman’s desirability peaks 32 years before a man’s does.
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Courtesy of Jonathan Proctor, Solomon Hsiang / The ... A Disappointing New Problem With Geo-Engineering
Dimming the sky won’t save the world’s harvests.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Car Industry Squirms, as It Gets What It Asked For
Automakers spent months lobbying the Trump administration to weaken the EPA’s clean-car standards. But they’re not sure they wanted them that weak.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Rollback Breaks With 50 Years of Precedent
The proposal would undermine California’s ability to regulate toxic air pollution.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Problem With The New York Times’ Big Story on Climate Change
By portraying the early years of climate politics as a tragedy, the magazine lets Republicans and the fossil-fuel industry off the hook.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Climate Change May Cause 26,000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050
Unusually hot days have profound effects on mental health and human physiology.
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Roger Ressmeyer / Corbis / Getty Geology’s Timekeepers Are Feuding
“It’s a bit like Monty Python.”
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Jeff Swensen / Stringer / Getty Even Geologists Hate the EPA’s New Science Rule
Dozens of scientific and medical groups oppose the proposal, which began under former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Zhaoyu Zhu et al / Nature Ancient Humans Lived in China 2.1 Million Years Ago
The discovery of stone tools—the oldest ever found outside of Africa—dramatically shifts the story of hominin migration, researchers say.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh: ‘The Earth Is Warming’
Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court affirms climate change—but that’s not necessarily good news for the EPA.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Scott Pruitt’s Critics Will Miss Him
His successor will likely be far too skilled to attract notice to the EPA.
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DeSilva et al. / Science Advances Were Our Ancestors Sleeping in Trees 3 Million Years Ago?
That's only one question posed by a new analysis of an extraordinary Australopithecus skeleton.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters So Did Scott Pruitt Remake the EPA?
The agency is smaller, poorer, and less driven by science. But “I don’t think there is a big Pruitt legacy,” one legal scholar said.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Has Done More Than Pull Out of Paris
His other policies have knocked the U.S. off track to meet its emission-reduction goals.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Could Reshape the Environment
A new justice will likely weaken the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Tech Industry Is Fighting Trump—and Mostly Losing
Legal opposition and strongly worded remarks could not defeat the president’s travel ban.
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Matthew Busch / Getty / Jonathan Daniels / ... How the Carmakers Trumped Themselves
Automakers wanted rule changes. But not, they say, these rule changes.
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La Plata County Handout / Reuters Someone Flew a Drone Too Close to a Wildfire, Again
Firefighters in Colorado had to ground their aircraft for an hour.
