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COP26 draft text annotated: what it says and what it means
There are a few notable victories in the text.
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![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
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At COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport
The Secretary of Transportation on the U.S.'s electric vehicle future.
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![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
![A silhouette of a young boy backdrops a plume of smoke rising from a refinery.]()
After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives
The new regulation is expected to prevent nearly 400 premature deaths over the next 15 years.
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![A boat parked in water behind a house on Tangier Island.]()
What a tiny island in Chesapeake Bay teaches us about the costs of sea level rise
Tangier Island in Virginia could be uninhabitable by 2051.
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Accountability
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Banks with $130 trillion in assets pledge to fund climate action. Activists aren’t impressed.
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What climate denial? Oil executives play dumb at major congressional hearing.
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Study: Indigenous tribes lost 99% of land to colonization
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California is banking on forests to reduce emissions. What happens when they go up in smoke?
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The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells
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The art of repeal: illustrating Trump’s toxic legacy — and Biden’s daunting task ahead
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The EPA cut back enforcement during COVID. These researchers are assessing the damage.
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We broke down the last decade of climate change in 7 charts
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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought
Solutions Lab
Fix combines creative storytelling with network-building and events
Meeting your neighbors is a climate solution
The Climate Fiction Issue
Imagine 2200 Short Stories
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In a first, the Justice Department will investigate whether Alabama’s sewage crisis violates civil rights
The investigation into Alabama's wastewater crisis marks a first-of-its-kind environmental justice probe.
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Enter the dragonscale: Google looks to jumpstart a new market for rooftop solar
It could pave the way for buildings across the country to adopt the reptilian design.
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![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
Report exposes the shaky data undermining the world’s progress on climate change
As world leaders gather for COP26, an investigation from the Washington Post finds countries are seriously underreporting their emissions.
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Photos of the furious, sardonic protests surrounding COP26
Protesters dressed as Pikachus, Squid Game guards, and greenwashers to criticize climate talks.
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![There women using red and bule saris walk on a pavement road in india. on the background, against a pale blue sky, several wind energy mills sprout from the earth.]()
![There women using red and bule saris walk on a pavement road in india. on the background, against a pale blue sky, several wind energy mills sprout from the earth.]()
Report: The renewable future is being built on exploitation, too
Fossil fuel companies have long been criticized for violating human rights. Turns out the renewable energy industry is just as bad.
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Indigenous nations in Wisconsin suing to prevent wolf hunts
"Tribes don't want to see the wolf killed to extinction"
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The House just passed a major infrastructure bill. Here’s what’s in it.
The package focuses on “traditional” infrastructure, but some spending addresses emissions and climate resiliency.
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The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere
The goal is to bring the cost to under $100 per metric ton of carbon dioxide.
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Temperature Check
In the last episode of Temperature Check before the new year, host Andrew Simon and returning co-host Justin Worland look back on the biggest climate stories of 2020 and look ahead to what’s in store for the holiday season.
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