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One of the biggest climate threats is the most familiar: Rain
Heavy rainfall can be just as damaging to crops and cities as drought and extreme heat, and the U.S has been experiencing more of both.
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Here’s how hot your hometown will feel by midcentury
Without climate action, up to a quarter of the U.S. could feel hotter than 127 F at least one day a year.
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California’s fires are getting worse, and it isn’t just the lack of rakes
Scientists pinned down what's behind California's big blazes
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As Amazon Prime Day orders roll in, U.S. workers walk out
Those deals come with more environmental consequences than shoppers bargained for.
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Your city probably won’t feel like itself in 30 years
Like the weather in Barcelona? Move to London.
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National Grid to NYC customers: Support the Williams Pipeline or no new service
Some NYC customers ask, is it OK for my utility company to email me pro-pipeline spam?
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Stop building a spaceship to Mars and just plant some damn trees
If we filled all the extra space on the planet with trees, we could cut carbon by about 25 percent (in theory).
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We’re on track to blow our carbon budget. Are we doomed?
But there’s a glass half full side to it, too.
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What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.
Robert Macfarlane goes underground to see how humans will be remembered.
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150 million trees died in California’s drought, and worse is to come
A new study suggests more bad news for California's trees.
