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![Collage: a speech bubble with a photo of smokestacks and smoke against an orange sunny sky, and a speech bubble with the dictionary definition for the word]()
![Collage: a speech bubble with a photo of smokestacks and smoke against an orange sunny sky, and a speech bubble with the dictionary definition for the word]()
‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills
Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds.
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![Wind and rain pick up in Tampa, Florida ahead of Hurricane Ian making landfall on September 28, 2022.]()
![Wind and rain pick up in Tampa, Florida ahead of Hurricane Ian making landfall on September 28, 2022.]()
As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, Florida faces historic storm surge
The Category 4 storm pushed walls of water several feet high into low-lying cities from Sarasota to Fort Myers.
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In Brazil’s presidential election, the fate of the Amazon is at stake
Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2.
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![a group of women walk down a city street chanting and carrying a sign for climate justice]()
‘A much-needed step’: The EPA creates a new environmental justice office
The initiative will give hard-hit communities $3 billion to address pollution.
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![Unused pipes for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic gas pipeline are stored on the site of the Port of Mukran.]()
![Unused pipes for the Nord Stream 2 Baltic gas pipeline are stored on the site of the Port of Mukran.]()
The huge expansion of oil pipelines is endangering the climate, report says
Thousands of miles of new pipelines planned around world show ‘an almost deliberate failure to meet climate goals.’
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![Collage: SUV driving in nature with trees and mountains in distance, with a photo of a smog covered city rising beyond the mountains]()
‘Nature-rinsing’: How polluters use the beauty of nature to clean up their image
Ever wonder why ads show SUVs dashing through the forest?
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![A group of people shovel sand into sandbags in a parking lot]()
Tampa Bay isn’t safe from any hurricane — especially not Ian
The coastal region is severely flood-prone, even with smaller storms.
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Puerto Ricans were already angry about the power grid. Then came Hurricane Fiona.
“Fiona is a storm, and the privatization of the electric grid is a storm as well.“
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The rebirth of Hiware Bazar
How a drought-stricken community in India became a “village of millionaires”
