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Fixing your iPhone is about to get a lot easier
By early 2022, customers will be able to buy replacement parts from Apple.
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Reinventing coal country: Reclaiming America’s abandoned mine lands
As innovative models for reclamation unfold, and federal funding nears, there is new hope for the communities that once depended on coal mining.
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Climate change deniers are over attacking the science. Now they attack the solutions.
A new study charts the evolution of right-wing arguments.
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Indigenous leaders left COP26 disappointed, but celebrating ‘small wins’
Indigenous groups reflect on what they won — and lost — at COP26.
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Accountability
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After years of delays, Southern California’s new smog regulation promises to save lives
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In a first, the Justice Department will investigate whether Alabama’s sewage crisis violates civil rights
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Report: The renewable future is being built on exploitation, too
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Report: Climate misinformation on Facebook viewed 1.4 million times daily
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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
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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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Days after COP26, US pledge to cut aviation emissions gets rerouted
Biden’s EPA will keep a Trump-era emissions standard for airplanes — that doesn’t actually cut emissions.
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One surprising winner in Biden’s infrastructure bill: Biodiversity
Biden's infrastructure bill puts billions toward wildlife and ecosystems.
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Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working
The agreement's feeble enforcement measures are a feature, not a bug.
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Midwest tribes awarded $6.6 million to build their own EV charging network
After years of battling pipelines, it's another way to fight back against fossil fuels.
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Here’s how the bipartisan infrastructure deal could promote environmental justice
According to the White House, the new law earmarks $240 billion for environmental justice projects — the largest such investment in U.S. history.
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Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site
The plan would stop all future drilling within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico.
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The progress (and failures) of COP26, in 3 charts
Gaps remain on emissions, finance, and fossil fuel production.
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Coastal Californians, prepare for the ocean to rise 10 feet by century’s end
Planners warned to start making infrastructure changes now
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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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