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![A car is submerged in water due to Tropical Storm Henri]()
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North America’s very wet weekend bears the fingerprints of climate change
From Tropical Storm Henri to floods in Tennessee, here’s how rising temperatures are linked to extreme weather.
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How reptiles in the city went from native species to urban legend
We have been inventing stories about reptiles in the city since long before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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![a landscape scene where large, red flames burn behind trees and power lines]()
Can burying power lines prevent California’s next big wildfire?
PG&E, one of the country’s largest utilities, wants to put 10,000 miles of lines underground.
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How ‘FernGully’ ended up in the West Virginia coal mines
The classic movie made fairies out to be nature’s champions. They weren’t always seen that way.
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A new scorecard ranked companies on environmental racism. Guess who came in last?
ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting nonwhite communities.
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As disasters mount, central banks gird against threat of climate change
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, officials of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system.
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Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
"Both sides" of what "debate"?
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The EPA just ordered this Illinois city to fix its sewage problem — again
Cahokia Heights has been ordered to control its sewage overflows, but finding the money to do so will be a challenge.
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Biden promised to phase out drilling on public lands. How’s that going?
The administration agreed to start selling oil and gas leases again, but may do things a little differently.
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More workers are dying from heat. Texas may make it harder to protect them.
Will the US finally enact national heat standards?
