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![Ships are docked along refinery facilities at the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.]()
![Ships are docked along refinery facilities at the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.]()
Congressional watchdog warns of climate threats to chemical plants
More than a third of risky U.S. chemical facilities face threats exacerbated by global warming, according to a new report.
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![Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.]()
![Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.]()
How Amazon is drastically undercounting its carbon footprint
A private report shows the loopholes Amazon uses to lessen its climate impact.
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![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
![A horizontal drilling rig in Weld County, Colorado.]()
Colorado has an abandoned oil well problem. Now it’s asking drillers to pay up.
Colorado’s new oil and gas bonding rules ask for hundreds of thousands of additional dollars — but still might not cover all potential costs.
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![Two people, one with a radio, are silhouetted against an orange and grey sky.]()
![Two people, one with a radio, are silhouetted against an orange and grey sky.]()
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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![a white gas pump with a hand-drawn message in black pen saying]()
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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![Ariel view of trees being cut down in the pine forest.]()
![Ariel view of trees being cut down in the pine forest.]()
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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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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![Two people with baskets collecting garbage on a mountain of trash]()
![Two people with baskets collecting garbage on a mountain of trash]()
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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![A neighborhood destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013]()
![A neighborhood destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines in 2013]()
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.
