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![Flooding from Hurricane Ida]()
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Medical journals warn of an even bigger health threat than COVID
More than 230 publications said unchecked climate change could have “catastrophic” and irreversible consequences for global health.
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![A smoggy street in New Delhi]()
![A smoggy street in New Delhi]()
Air pollution takes away billions of years of life expectancy — and many countries aren’t doing enough about it
Researchers say polluted air is the “greatest risk to global health."
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![Satellite image of Hurricane Ida crossing Cuba]()
![Satellite image of Hurricane Ida crossing Cuba]()
The science behind super-strong hurricanes like Ida
Climate change is now an ingredient in every storm, including Ida.
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![Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner.]()
![Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner.]()
Ghostly satellite image captures the Arctic ‘losing its soul’
In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous gray?
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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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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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![Illustration: silhouette of a woman looking at a large wildfire]()
![Illustration: silhouette of a woman looking at a large wildfire]()
Welcome to the Pyrocene
We have created a planetary fire age. Now we have to live in it.
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![Physicians and Indigenous water protectors at a rally in St. Paul.]()
![Physicians and Indigenous water protectors at a rally in St. Paul.]()
Health care workers join the fight to stop the Line 3 pipeline
Standing with Indigenous groups, physicians call on Biden to revoke Enbridge’s permit.
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Climate migrants are ‘invisible’ to many South American countries
It won’t stay that way for long.
