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100 degrees in the Arctic? Climate change is destabilizing the north and south poles.
Rising temperatures prompt World Meteorological Organization to add new category to its climate extreme archives.
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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia
Here are the crucial ingredients for decarbonizing an economy, and safeguarding a region.
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Why tornadoes are the hardest disasters to link to climate change
Some jumped to connect last week's twisters with global warming. Scientists aren't so sure.
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The Biden administration said its drilling-lease spree in the Gulf was court-ordered. It wasn’t.
Leases that could lead to 600 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions didn't have to happen.
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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 events22 Predictions for 2022
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School or be schooled: How Gen Z is mentoring their elders on climate action
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Revitalizing Indigenous knowledge means reimagining mentorship
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Resilience, community, and other lessons I’ve learned from my plants
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What happens when communities and academics teach each other? ‘Communiversity.’
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5 unexpected places to find your climate mentor
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A Missouri gas company figured out how to keep its illegal pipeline running
By using 400,000 customers as leverage.
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Walking America’s car-centric hellscape
Much of America isn’t built for walking. Alex Wolfe is doing it anyway.
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Beyond reusing and recycling: How the US could actually reduce plastic production
Whether it’s a cap on production or a market mechanism, it’s likely to meet industry opposition.
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The U.S. has officially stopped financing new coal plants abroad
But it might keep propping them up at home.
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‘Don’t Look Up’ shows how hard it is to satirize the end of the world
The climate metaphor starts to fall apart about halfway through, but that’s when the film works best.
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Who gets help after a hurricane or flood? FEMA will start tracking it by race
Nearly half of the people who ask for disaster aid don't get help. Is it discrimination?
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In a red-state first, Nebraska plans to decarbonize power sector by mid-century
There are some caveats, but it’s an ambitious goal for a state that currently gets more than half of its electricity from coal.
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Virginia’s governor-elect wants to get rid of cap-and-trade. There’s just one problem.
Glenn Youngkin's plan to ditch a regional carbon-cutting program could hit a roadblock.
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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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