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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The East Coast Is Going to Get Arkansas-ified
A new study finds the climate “twin city” for hundreds of places across the United States.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Jeff Bezos Wrote a Blog Post
He blogs now.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Millennial Era of Climate Politics Has Arrived
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outlines the fuzzy edges of a new “green dream.”
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NASA / NOAA / CIRES Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
The polar vortex is just the latest example of how reliable five-day forecasts have become.
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Reuters 7 Reasons Democrats Won’t Pass a Green New Deal
The task is enormous, and the path is narrow.
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David Gray / Reuters The World Just Experienced the Four Hottest Years on Record
NASA and NOAA are both shut down, so outside scientists affirmed the milestone this week.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Unprecedented Surge in Fear About Climate Change
More Americans than ever are worried about climate change, but they’re not willing to pay much to stop it.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters There’s Snow on TV, so Trump’s Tweeting About Climate Change
Alas, a brief cold spell does not undo decades of scientific fact.
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters The Green New Deal Hits Its First Major Snag
A key activist group has quietly dropped its support for carbon-capture technology, which scientists say will be crucial to fighting global warming.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?
“We’re a lot closer than we should be,” one Stanford scientist warned.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Indoor Man in the White House
In withdrawing the United States from the historic Paris Agreement, Donald Trump rewrote the future of the Earth’s climate.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Bizarre California Fire Threat Is Serious
Amid a political dispute with California politicians, the president threatened to cut off emergency relief to the state.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters U.S. Carbon Pollution Surged in 2018, After Years of Stasis
It’s an ominous sign for America’s ability to meet its goals under the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely
But experts warn that our overall picture of sea-level rise looks far scarier today than it did even five years ago.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Establish a New House ‘Climate Crisis’ Committee
But it will likely lack the broad powers favored by supporters of a Green New Deal.
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Sandy Huffaker / Reuters The Southwest May Be Deep Into a Climate-Changed Mega-Drought
Global warming may have turned an already historic dry spell into the third-worst drought of the past 1,000 years.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ryan Zinke Is the Blue Wave’s First Casualty
The interior secretary’s departure shows the extent of the new Democratic power—and also its limits.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters An Upheaval at the Ends of the World
Two new reports find that the North and South Poles face an “unprecedented” climate future.
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Stephane Mahe / Reuters France’s ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters Aren’t Against Climate Action
Just because they oppose Emmanuel Macron’s proposed fuel-tax hike does not mean that the French activists will oppose any policy designed to fight climate change.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting
After years of infighting, the Democrats may finally have found an environmental consensus in the Green New Deal.
