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Think NYC’s L train fiasco is bad? Just wait until storms swamp JFK Airport
Welcome to infrastructure planning in the era of rapid climate change.
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Antarctic sea ice is ‘astonishingly’ low this melt season
The annual ice-free season began at the Ross Ice Shelf on New Year’s Day, the earliest time in history.
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![A palm oil plantation in Indonesia.]()
![A palm oil plantation in Indonesia.]()
We need to talk about palm oil
We eat it, clean our homes and bodies with it and even fuel our cars with it. But our insatiable demand for palm oil is wreaking havoc on the planet — and our climate.
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![Washington DC city view at a orange sunset, including Washington Monument from Capitol building]()
Inside the bill that set the ‘strongest clean energy requirement in the nation’
D.C. is poised to have the most ambitious timeline for cutting electric emissions. Here's how.
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On the 7th day of the shutdown, the EPA has run out of money
More than 13,700 employees will be furloughed at midnight.
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![A wheelchair sits in front of a senior living facility that was destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.]()
![A wheelchair sits in front of a senior living facility that was destroyed by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California.]()
In natural disasters, a disability can be a death sentence
How disability rights advocates want to change the landscape of disaster response.
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As snow becomes scarce, scientists are making their own
Though controlling the weather may seem like the stuff of science fiction, the technology has been around for decades.
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![Shot of a large flock of chicken hens all together in a big warehouse on a farm]()
![Shot of a large flock of chicken hens all together in a big warehouse on a farm]()
Factory farms no longer have to report their air emissions. That’s dangerous for their neighbors.
And bad news for the climate.
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![Environmental shopping bags are seen at the Thebarton Foodland in Adelaide, Australia. South Australia has now implemented a state wide ban on retailers providing customers with plastic bags forcing them to find an alternative.]()
![Environmental shopping bags are seen at the Thebarton Foodland in Adelaide, Australia. South Australia has now implemented a state wide ban on retailers providing customers with plastic bags forcing them to find an alternative.]()
As anti-plastic movements sweep the globe, change doesn’t always come easy
Australia could serve as a test case for the anti-plastic movement.
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There’s a greater risk of ‘domino effect’ with planet’s tipping points, study says
Scientists warn policymakers not to ignore links, and stress that ‘every action counts’
