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Reuters / Ognen Teofilovski 5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution
For the third year in a row, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high.
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Hamilton / REA / Redux John Kerry’s New Bipartisan, Star-Studded ‘War’ on Climate Change
In an interview, the former secretary of state talks about the climate news that makes him want to curse, and his new alliance with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP A Big Silly Cybertruck
Can it haul stuff? Hell yeah it can. It also looks like a Pokémon.
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Erin Scott / Reuters So Has the Green New Deal Won Yet?
Since it debuted a year ago, the idea has lost, and won, and could lose again.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How to Cut U.S. Carbon Pollution by Nearly 40 Percent in 10 Years
A bill in Congress could slash American greenhouse-gas emissions. It’s even bipartisan—if you squint.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Trump Isn’t a Climate Denier. He’s Worse.
The president is withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change because he just can’t quit carbon.
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Noah Berger / AP The Smoldering State
California doesn’t know how to run a power grid in the climate century. But no one else does, either.
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NASA / Reuters The Worst Day in Earth’s History Contains an Ominous Warning
One of the planet’s most dramatic extinctions was caused in part by ocean acidification, which has become a problem in our own era.
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Mike Eliason / AP This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like
PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.
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Kate Munsch / Reuters Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like
Most registered voters are in favor of spending trillions on weatherized buildings and renewable-energy infrastructure.
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Sergio Moraes / Reuters The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change
Sea-level rise will become unmanageable, and life will flee the world’s tropical oceans, if carbon pollution keeps rising, a new report from the UN climate panel says.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable
Especially in private, she sounds a lot like … a teenager.
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Costas Baltas / Reuters A Fight for the Soul of NOAA
The agency’s National Weather Service is one of the most free and reliable parts of the federal government. It must stay that way.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Left Has Reframed Democrats’ Climate Debate
Just as the 2008 primary helped form Obama’s health-care policy, 2020’s climate plans could have an influence in the long term.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters NOAA Politicized the Weather Report
The scientific agency sided with the president’s inaccurate forecast over the work of its professional staff.
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Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone
The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters For Voters, Does Climate … Actually Even Matter?
Bernie Sanders released a massive plan for a Green New Deal this week. What’s the point of all these climate plans?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Joy of Summer Is Vanishing Fast
As the climate warms up, cool summer evenings are becoming a distant memory.
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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.
