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Clean energy bonanza: Biden’s budget tries to undo Trump’s damage
The 'skinny budget' asks Congress for $14 billion to address the climate crisis.
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Cascadia’s communities of color speak out against climate injustice
Activists say the government must listen to long-marginalized communities that feel climate change’s biggest impacts.
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Migrant children are being held in toxic U.S. detention centers
The Biden administration is preparing to detain thousands of migrant children at sites with histories of toxic contamination.
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House hunters are fleeing climate change, causing a new kind of gentrification
A new survey shows that Americans are factoring climate change into their moving plans. This could push low-income families into…
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The EPA cut back enforcement during COVID. These researchers are assessing the damage.
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6 reasons 2020 wasn’t as bad for climate change as you thought
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We’re running out of time to flatten the curve — for climate change
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The crisis in Texas underscores the deadly risks when the grid goes down
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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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‘The world is getting scarier’: How climate change multiplies risk
Michele Wucker's new book analyzes how the world wrestles with uncertainty.
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Retreat from coastlines? Politicians don’t want to talk about it.
Why managed retreat is still a political third rail.
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Why a landmark experiment into dimming the sun got canceled
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Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair
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Can a pipeline company defy a governor’s orders? Gretchen Whitmer is about to find out.
The ongoing battle between North America's largest mover of oil, Enbridge Energy, and the state of Michigan.
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Biden wants $10 billion for a climate army. It’s not enough.
The Civilian Climate Corps would put people to work preparing the nation for hotter heat waves and fiercer storms. They'll…
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Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
The untold history of how people survived the past 2,000 years.
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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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