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5 ways we need to adapt to climate change — or pay the price
A new report argues that big investments in adaptation measures will not only avert environmental catastrophe but also reap significant returns.
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Are we overestimating how much trees will help fight climate change?
Research suggests that forests may store far less carbon than we think.
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This group is teaching new sailors how to tackle plastic pollution
Greta Thunberg isn’t the only one setting sail to save the planet.
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Wait, melting glaciers are helping capture carbon?
If you were looking for a way out of our impending climate doom, however, this ain’t it.
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The Trump administration tried to bury a climate study on … rice?
“The USDA is part of a federal administration that can only be described in legal terms as ‘exhibiting depraved indifference to climate change.’”
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We’ve got another ozone problem, and it’s not what you think
The beneficial ozone up in the stratosphere has an evil cousin, and it’s right here on the ground.
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The climate change ‘tipping point’ has already arrived for these 70 U.S. counties
It’s not your imagination: your city may be getting hotter faster than the rest of the U.S.
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Alaska, barren of sea ice, saw its hottest July in 125 years
The heat helped spur wildfires that shrouded much of the state in smoke.
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IPCC report: Planting trees isn’t enough to save us from the climate crisis
Feeling your inner Lorax these days and want to speak for the trees? Maybe throw in a few good words for peat bogs and marshland.
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Climate change is making it more dangerous to eat certain fish
Certain fish are now higher in mercury as a result of warmer waters and overfishing.
