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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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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.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Senate Democrats Call for Investigation of Pruitt's Unusual Raises
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper question whether Pruitt or one of his aides abused special hiring powers granted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters What Motivated the YouTube Shooter?
The suspect, Nasim Aghdam, was driven by animus toward the video site’s policies.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides
The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.
