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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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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.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters After Decades of Losing Ice, Antarctica Is Now Hemorrhaging It
Global warming has already cost the continent 2.7 trillion tons of mass.
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Tim Tomkinson How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)
Lina Khan has a novel theory about monopolies—and her sights are set squarely on the company.
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Carbon Engineering Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline
A Harvard professor says his company should be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, at industrial scales, by 2021.
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David Paul Morris / Bloomberg / Getty Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic
But can they succeed despite their essential dorkiness?
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Toby Melville / Reuters That Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid? It Triggered Global Warming, Too
100,000 years of scorching temperatures may have followed the impact.
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Oskari Porkka / Gilmanshin / Shutterstock / Katie ... Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written Into Arctic Ice
Scientists can finally track the civilization’s economic booms and recessions—thanks to the exhaust of its massive coin-making operation, preserved for centuries in Greenland’s ice sheet.
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Carlos Allegri / Reuters Younger Republicans Are Slightly More Liberal on Climate Change
Millennials in the GOP want more government action on environmental issues than the older generation.
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USGS Handout / Reuters A Beginner’s Guide to Hawaii’s Otherworldly Lava
Here’s what scientists and native Hawaiians see in the sublime molten fire.
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Divers swim over a bed of dead corals ... Climate Change Could Destroy Even the Ocean's Most Pristine Parks
“Marine protected areas” have been an environmental success story. But a new study finds that most won’t withstand global warming.
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USGS / Reuters Why Hawaii's Newest Eruption Makes Volcanologists Nervous
“There’s not a lot of words to capture a gradual, slow-developing disaster like this.”
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Tim Wimborne / Reuters The 'H' In IMHO Does Not Mean Humble or Honest
We all know what imho means.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Scott Pruitt’s New Rule Could Completely Transform the EPA
It would not only undermine 30 years of clean-air regulations, but radically restrict what science the agency is allowed to use.
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Staff / Reuters Your Lyft Ride Is Now Carbon-Neutral. Your Uber Isn't.
The ride-hailing upstart is investing millions to help reduce global warming.
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David Gray / Reuters Since 2016, Half of All Coral in the Great Barrier Reef Has Died
A new study warns it has become a “highly altered, degraded system.”
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Alex Brandon / AP The 3 Questions Mark Zuckerberg Hasn’t Answered
A simple way for the House to outdo the Senate
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Carolyn Kaster / Reuters My Facebook Was Breached by Cambridge Analytica. Was Yours?
How to find out if you are one of the 87 million victims
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Justin Sullivan / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Not Resigning
In an interview, the Facebook CEO tells The Atlantic he’s not walking away from the company, but he is looking for outside expertise.
