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Hawai’i shuts down its last coal plant
The move is a “major milestone” in the state’s clean energy transition.
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For New Zealand Māori, an uncertain future as fish move away
As the climate warms, animals are heading for new areas. The Indigenous Māori’s experience handling the shift offers a warning — and lessons — for people around the world.
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Jackson’s water crisis was triggered by floods and compounded by racism
Nearly 200,000 people in Mississippi’s capital don’t have water to drink, flush toilets, or fight fires.
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After FEMA overhaul, hundreds of thousands of Americans are forgoing federal flood insurance
The total number of National Flood Insurance Program policies has decreased nearly 9 percent since last fall.
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The problem with corporate pledges to protect abortion access and the climate
"Companies don’t do anything out of the goodness of their hearts."
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The temperature threshold the human body can’t survive
Research says it's happening sooner than we once thought.
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Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law
It’s the single biggest climate package in U.S. history.
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Massachusetts’ Republican governor signs far-reaching climate bill into law
It’s “a big f****ing deal.”
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Interior Department backtracks on public comment period for Willow project
The government told an Alaska Native village it would have more time to give feedback on an oil project. Then it reversed course.
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Study: Climate change is making 58% of infectious diseases worse
From West Nile to asthma, climate change is aggravating illnesses and hindering our ability to fight them.