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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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Gerald Herbert / AP Why This Weird Little Frog Should Care About Brett Kavanaugh
If the conservative jurist joins the court by Monday, he will rule on protections for the critically endangered dusky gopher frog.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Will It Ever Stop Raining?
Cities across the country smashed rainfall records, thanks to a set of factors.
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Google Google’s New Tool to Fight Climate Change
The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from cities around the world.
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Asmaa Waguih / Reuters Geologists Are Feuding About the Collapse of Civilization
The year’s most acrimonious scientific fight is a mega-drama over a mega-drought.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters For Millions, Florence 'Has Never Been More Dangerous'
North Carolina's governor warned that inland residents now face life-threatening hazards.
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NOAA Florence Will Drop an Inconceivable Amount of Water
In the next few days, the hurricane will likely dump 18 trillion gallons of rain, as much water as fills the Chesapeake Bay.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP 17 Bipartisan Governors Vow to Fight Climate Change—And President Trump
The group, whose states represent half of U.S. GDP, pledged $1.4 billion to support electric cars, plus a new set of policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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NOAA Don’t Pay Attention to the Hurricane Category
The wind-based metric doesn’t fully capture what’s most dangerous about storms like Florence.
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NOAA Hurricane Florence's Slow Speed Is Ominous
The “storm of a lifetime” is forecast to stall just offshore, making it even more dangerous.
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Corbis Historical / Getty Victorian-Era Orgasms and the Crisis of Peer Review
A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth.
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Carlos Osorio / AP There Is No Pickup-Truck Emoji
There are 12 train emoji and one scooter emoji. And yet.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters No Ecosystem on Earth Is Safe From Climate Change
If carbon emissions continue to grow, anyone who works with the land could face ‘unprecedented challenges.’
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Global Rightward Shift on Climate Change
President Trump may be leading the rich, English-speaking world to scale back environmental policies.
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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.
