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![The Arc de Triomphe illuminated with the words]()
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Against all odds, the Paris Agreement is — kinda, sorta — working
The agreement's feeble enforcement measures are a feature, not a bug.
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![A high cliff-side road near the ocean shows signs of major breakage, with cracks coming right up the barrier of the road. Houses and powerlines are on the other side of the barrier on top of the cliff]()
![A high cliff-side road near the ocean shows signs of major breakage, with cracks coming right up the barrier of the road. Houses and powerlines are on the other side of the barrier on top of the cliff]()
Coastal Californians, prepare for the ocean to rise 10 feet by century’s end
Planners warned to start making infrastructure changes now
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![The leaders of COP26 sit behind a large table at the annual U.N. climate conference.]()
![The leaders of COP26 sit behind a large table at the annual U.N. climate conference.]()
COP26 made real progress. It also isn’t enough.
The final agreement is the most significant global climate pact since the Paris agreement, but it’s far from perfect.
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COP26 draft text annotated: what it says and what it means
There are a few notable victories in the text.
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![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
![Pete Buttigieg speaks at a press conference at COP26.]()
At COP26, Pete Buttigieg makes a pitch to decarbonize American transport
The Secretary of Transportation on the U.S.'s electric vehicle future.
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![A boat parked in water behind a house on Tangier Island.]()
![A boat parked in water behind a house on Tangier Island.]()
What a tiny island in Chesapeake Bay teaches us about the costs of sea level rise
Tangier Island in Virginia could be uninhabitable by 2051.
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![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Joe Biden on on day three of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.]()
Report exposes the shaky data undermining the world’s progress on climate change
As world leaders gather for COP26, an investigation from the Washington Post finds countries are seriously underreporting their emissions.
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![Smoke and steam rising from piles of coal waste with smokestacks in the background]()
![Smoke and steam rising from piles of coal waste with smokestacks in the background]()
Blast from the past: Coal sends global emissions to pre-pandemic highs
CO2 emissions dropped 5 percent in 2020. Now they're roaring back.
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Report: Climate misinformation on Facebook viewed 1.4 million times daily
That's nearly 14 times the traffic of the site's climate science information hub.
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![An electric vehicle plugged into a charging station.]()
Congress is poised to fix the most annoying thing about buying an electric car
The new EV tax credit would be $12,500 — and refundable.
