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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.
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Reuters The Hybrid System That Spots Tornadoes
While radar detects the formation of a tornado, a network of in-person tornado spotters also confirms its existence.
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Lilium Flying Cars Are Real—And They’re Not Bad for the Climate
They might even be greener than electric ones.
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Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty The Next ‘South China Sea’ Is Covered in Ice
The State Department will soon have a permanent presence in Greenland for the first time since the 1950s.
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Bettmann / Getty Hello Fellow Kids, It’s Me, the New Morning Edition Theme
NPR changed its flagship news show’s music last week, and gave away something indelible.
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Hazir Reka / Reuters The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels
A new report says that the world subsidized fossil fuels by $5.2 trillion in just one year. But that calculation is less tidy than it seems.
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Ken Cedeno / Getty A Very Important Climate Fact That No One Knows
The U.S. actually has a very popular climate policy—it’s on the books in 29 states. But what does it cost?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Jay Inslee’s Climate Plan Is Keeping It 100
The Washington governor wants to transform the electricity grid and new-car market before it’s too late.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Why Beto’s Climate Plan Is So Surprising
Previously light on policy, his campaign has—for the moment—the most detailed plan on climate change in the Democratic primary.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Greenland Is Falling Apart
Since 1972, the giant island’s ice sheet has lost 11 quadrillion pounds of water.
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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.
