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Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse
A new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power.
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The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.
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Can unions save offshore wind from Trump?
Organized labor has a plan for how to keep New England’s renewable energy momentum going.
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The US no longer supports capping plastic production in UN treaty
Environmental advocates understand the announcement as a reversal, calling it “absolutely devastating.”
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Extreme Weather
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Mexico is offering water to South Texas. But there’s a catch farmers aren’t happy about.
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What Election Day looked like for voters in hurricane-battered communities across Florida and North Carolina
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Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
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Climate-fueled extreme weather is hiking up car insurance rates
Indigenous Affairs
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A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California
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Tribes help tribes after natural disasters. Helene is no different.
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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
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New York’s plastic lawsuit against PepsiCo has been dismissed. What’s next?
Despite the setback, environmental attorneys think similar litigation can succeed elsewhere.
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A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry
A form of lithium-ion battery called LFP is becoming increasingly popular among automakers due to its advantages on cost, safety, and materials.
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![U.S. Representative August Pfluger of Texas, pictured in Washington, DC, in March 2024.]()
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Trump’s GOP at UN climate talks: We’re in charge now
In a swaggering press conference at COP29, House Republicans delivered an aggressive message in support of oil, gas, and coal — but kept their options open.
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It’s not normal for the East Coast to be on fire
Here's why the November wildfires in New York and New Jersey are so alarming.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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How Republicans (sometimes) get on board with climate action
Getting anything accomplished under President-elect Trump might seem far-fetched. But it’s happened before.
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![Participants walk by an entrance of COP29, UN Climate Change Conference venue, an event held by UNFCCC in Baku Olympic Stadium.]()
![Participants walk by an entrance of COP29, UN Climate Change Conference venue, an event held by UNFCCC in Baku Olympic Stadium.]()
The question bringing COP29 to a halt: Who’s rich enough to pay for climate change?
Trillions of dollars depend on whether major emerging economies like China will have to step up climate aid.
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![A visitor to COP29 is seen in silhouette against an illuminated globe of the world in the Zero Waste pavillion at the COP meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
![A visitor to COP29 is seen in silhouette against an illuminated globe of the world in the Zero Waste pavillion at the COP meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.]()
Introducing ‘anti-COP’: A climate summit for activists who are fed up
Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process, and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities.
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Trump’s second term is already derailing food talks at COP29
At the U.N. climate summit, agricultural emissions are being sidelined — again.
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