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![Illustration of a puffin fading into nothing]()
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We saved the puffins. Now a warming planet is unraveling that work.
"Seabirds are climate change prisoners. Our inaction makes us the executioners."
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![Climate activist Niria Garcia stands amid the burned-out remains of her father’s home in Phoenix, Ore.]()
![Climate activist Niria Garcia stands amid the burned-out remains of her father’s home in Phoenix, Ore.]()
Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia
Here are the crucial ingredients for decarbonizing an economy, and safeguarding a region.
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![a white house with peeling paint and loose slats stands in front of a giant field of debris -- wood, bottles, and scrap metal -- through which people are walking. Overhead, a blazing sun looks down in a clear, blue sky.]()
![a white house with peeling paint and loose slats stands in front of a giant field of debris -- wood, bottles, and scrap metal -- through which people are walking. Overhead, a blazing sun looks down in a clear, blue sky.]()
Why tornadoes are the hardest disasters to link to climate change
Some jumped to connect last week's twisters with global warming. Scientists aren't so sure.
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Nature’s air sensors are growing on your street
How a group of community scientists are using a plant to take control of the air they breathe.
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Cascadia is known for strong climate action. So why are emissions still rising?
Climate-warming pollution is rising in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Action in 2022 can get the region on track for 2030 targets.
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![About 150 tons of pellets were spilled into the sea from a vessel when Typhoon Vicente in 2012, and some of the pellets drifted into fish farms.]()
![About 150 tons of pellets were spilled into the sea from a vessel when Typhoon Vicente in 2012, and some of the pellets drifted into fish farms.]()
Nurdles? The worst toxic waste you’ve probably never heard of.
Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous.
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The government’s new ‘Earthshot’ — making it cheap to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere
The goal is to bring the cost to under $100 per metric ton of carbon dioxide.
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![A climate protester holds a sign with orange flames at COP26.]()
![A climate protester holds a sign with orange flames at COP26.]()
Goodbye 1.5 degrees? Here’s how hot scientists believe the world will get
As COP26 ramps up, most expect the world to blow past climate goals.
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Toxic algae blooms are multiplying. The government has no plan to help.
A new watchdog report shows the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t have a cohesive strategy for dealing with freshwater harmful algal blooms.
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![Conveyor belt with plastic on it.]()
![Conveyor belt with plastic on it.]()
EPA might finally regulate the plastic industry’s favorite kind of ‘recycling’
A new rule could make it harder to turn plastic into oil and gas to be burned.
