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For mental health, landmark climate report spells disaster
For the first time, the IPCC recognized what a warming world means for anxiety, trauma, and suicide.
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The highly flammable politics of high gas prices
Even for a so-called “climate president,” Biden’s reliance on fossil fuel reserves during the Ukraine crisis is not surprising.
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Deforestation emissions far higher than previously thought, study finds
Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest doubled in just two decades and are accelerating, research says.
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Big Oil is exiting Russia. What does that mean for the climate?
Withdrawing from Russia may hinder plans to transition to clean energy.
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Extreme Weather
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A third of Americans are already facing above-average warming
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Cities’ biggest obstacle to flood-proofing isn’t money: It’s 50-year-old rainfall data.
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The world’s poorest bear the burden of heat — and it’s getting worse
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A wildfire may have forever changed this Colorado community — and who can afford to live there
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How the Indigenous landback movement is poised to change conservation
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The future of farming? Think artificial intelligence, robots, and drones.
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Pop culture can no longer ignore our climate reality
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Climate change is stressful, scary, and sad. We’re gonna need therapy.
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What Biden's 'smart' border means for climate migration
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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease
The IPCC's latest climate report warns governments to prepare as diseases move into new regions.
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World agrees to negotiate a ‘historic’ treaty on plastic pollution
By 2024, nations will broker a binding, international agreement to rein in plastic pollution — and production.
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UN report could change the conversation on ‘loss and damage’ at November’s climate negotiations
The new IPCC report spotlighted the issue, despite U.S. opposition.
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A controversial lithium mine in Nevada is one step closer to operation
The final obstacle to mining in Thacker Pass is a federal lawsuit
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As scientists sound the alarm on climate, Biden’s State of the Union barely mentions it
Instead, the president touted the release of “60 billion barrels of oil from reserves around the world."
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Do salmon have rights?
A legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe could test the Rights of Nature movement.
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Climate change is intensifying Earth’s water cycle at twice the predicted rate, research shows
Rising temperatures pushing much more freshwater towards poles than climate models previously estimated.
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Time is running out to adapt to climate change, new IPCC report says
Region by region, the analysis describes “widespread, pervasive impacts” to ecosystems, people, settlements, and infrastructure.
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