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![A car races ahead of a wildfire, with orange, smoky skies in the background]()
![A car races ahead of a wildfire, with orange, smoky skies in the background]()
‘Weather whiplash’ helped drive this year’s California wildfires
Exceptionally wet winters drove a boom of grasses and shrubs that a record hot summer dried into the fuel now powering California's wildfires.
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![An aerial photos shows a wildfire burning through a jungle in the Amazon.]()
![An aerial photos shows a wildfire burning through a jungle in the Amazon.]()
No one should be surprised that South America is burning
Climate scientists have been saying this would happen for years. It will only get worse from here.
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![A large industrial facility near a river. In the foreground there is a white building with an American flag and the words United States Steel, Mon Valley Works, Clairton Plant]()
![A large industrial facility near a river. In the foreground there is a white building with an American flag and the words United States Steel, Mon Valley Works, Clairton Plant]()
The potential merger of two steel industry titans has environmentalists worried
It’s already possible to produce steel in a more climate-friendly way, but neither U.S. Steel nor Nippon Steel seems ready to adapt.
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![Illustration shows a brightly colored, cluttered garage and two women working on a red car. A rainbow flag hangs on the window, and a sign above the garage reads]()
![Illustration shows a brightly colored, cluttered garage and two women working on a red car. A rainbow flag hangs on the window, and a sign above the garage reads]()
Request for Support: Hot Mamas Garage
A funding proposal for an EV retrofit shop opens old wounds between a mother and son as they reexamine their troubled family history.
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![Photo of Kamala Harris speaking into a microphone with American flags in the background]()
![Photo of Kamala Harris speaking into a microphone with American flags in the background]()
Kamala Harris is making climate action patriotic. It just might work.
A new study suggests that framing the issue in terms of American values holds promise.
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The Gulf Coast is sinking, making hurricanes like Francine even more dangerous
Hurricane Francine hits low-lying Louisiana. Subsidence could make the storm surge worse.
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Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle
Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state's Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators.
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![A large split screen shows Donald Trump on the left and Kamala Harris on the right during the 2024 presidential debate]()
![A large split screen shows Donald Trump on the left and Kamala Harris on the right during the 2024 presidential debate]()
At the presidential debate, fossil fuels and energy politics took center stage
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump sought to court swing state voters in gas-rich Pennsylvania in their first head-to-head match.
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![Many colorful rows of tightly packed sewing machines and workers at a factory.]()
![Many colorful rows of tightly packed sewing machines and workers at a factory.]()
Shein is officially the biggest polluter in fast fashion. AI is making things worse.
The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the biggest polluter in the industry.
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![Collage of Daniel Aldrich photo, ballot, and hurricane map]()
![Collage of Daniel Aldrich photo, ballot, and hurricane map]()
Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher
Surviving Hurricane Katrina gave Daniel Aldrich's research a new focus: understanding how disasters shape the politics of a place.
