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![The Port of Seattle along the Duwamish River in Seattle.]()
![The Port of Seattle along the Duwamish River in Seattle.]()
EPA might water down its cleanup standards for Seattle’s only river
A proposal from the agency has raised environmental justice concerns among residents of the Duwamish Valley.
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![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
![The word mitigation spelled out with Scrabble tiles surrounded by question marks]()
Study: The public is pretty confused by your climate change jargon
Carbon neutral? Mitigation? People don't know the words scientists think they do.
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![Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner.]()
![Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner.]()
Ghostly satellite image captures the Arctic ‘losing its soul’
In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous gray?
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![A car is submerged in water due to Tropical Storm Henri]()
![A car is submerged in water due to Tropical Storm Henri]()
North America’s very wet weekend bears the fingerprints of climate change
From Tropical Storm Henri to floods in Tennessee, here’s how rising temperatures are linked to extreme weather.
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![A woman at a protest holding a sign that says]()
![A woman at a protest holding a sign that says]()
Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
"Both sides" of what "debate"?
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![Illustration: silhouette of a woman looking at a large wildfire]()
![Illustration: silhouette of a woman looking at a large wildfire]()
Welcome to the Pyrocene
We have created a planetary fire age. Now we have to live in it.
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![Cattle seen from above]()
![Cattle seen from above]()
The other greenhouse gas: UN report sets the record straight on methane
Every part of the problem needs fixing.
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![A man fills his car at a hydrogen fueling station in Los Angeles.]()
![A man fills his car at a hydrogen fueling station in Los Angeles.]()
Biden-backed ‘blue’ hydrogen may pollute more than coal, study finds
The bipartisan infrastructure bill includes $8 billion to develop "clean hydrogen," but a new study finds the alternative fuel is highly polluting.
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The best-case climate scenario is going to be extremely hard
A planet at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is still infinitely better than the alternative.
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![Lighters belonging to the Chinese oil company PetroOriental in Ecuador.]()
![Lighters belonging to the Chinese oil company PetroOriental in Ecuador.]()
New UN report could be a game-changer for climate lawsuits
"The IPCC report should be a sort of rallying call to lawyers."
