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Home appliance manufacturers can help address the climate crisis
How one company is taking responsibility for energy expenditures over the entire life cycle of its products
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Remember snow days? Today’s kids get heat days.
America’s schools are underprepared for the worst impacts of climate change.
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Keystone XL is history. What about the other pipelines?
Activists say Biden needs to do more on pipelines to uphold his climate promises.
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Biden’s offshore wind bonanza is coming to New York and New Jersey
With eight new leases in the pipeline, is the government prepared to handle all this development?
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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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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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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs
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How we calculated the size of the Southwest’s abandoned oil well problem
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Fix combines creative storytelling with network-building and events
As the nation prepares to burn again, Indigenous fire practices are a hot topic
The Future of Cities
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Salad will survive climate change. But at what cost?
We made eating greens more convenient. Can we make it truly democratic?
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Think climate change isn’t ‘click-worthy’? These bots disagree.
Two artists and their army of ad-clicking bots are taking a stand.
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Interior secretary recommends Biden restore national monuments Trump trashed
The Biden administration looks set to undo former President Donald Trump’s attacks on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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How oysters and seagrass could help the California coast adapt to rising seas
Seawalls can make erosion worse. This California scientist is looking for another solution.
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Biden rejoining the Paris Agreement, explained
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How 100% clean energy could power our cities and towns
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During wildfires and hurricanes, a language gap can be deadly
The importance of translating emergency warnings is often a lesson learned too late.
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Electronic waste will go down because of COVID, but for all the wrong reasons
"It is a reduction, though it is not good for the world."
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![Illustration: an electric heater with a design of a globe on it]()
![Illustration: an electric heater with a design of a globe on it]()
Home appliance manufacturers can help address the climate crisis
How one company is taking responsibility for energy expenditures over the entire life cycle of its products
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![An empty school hallway with an orange color overlay]()
![An empty school hallway with an orange color overlay]()
Remember snow days? Today’s kids get heat days.
America’s schools are underprepared for the worst impacts of climate change.
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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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