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Global warming not only increases ocean temperatures — it triggers a cascade of effects that are stripping the seas of oxygen. Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists are warning of the long-term threat to fish species and marine ecosystems.
Bitcoin, we have a problem.
Researchers say some climate models are underestimating future floods.
Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.
“People have spent time bobbing their heads to our stories of this despair and not seeing it as a call to action.”
For Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida, the storm was only the start of a deadly nightmare.
A federal judge struck down plans to expand fossil fuel extraction in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming, saying a federal agency failed to consider how the plans might threaten public health and the environment.
Texas officials claimed that no prisoners have been killed by heat. A new report shows they're wrong.
ESG is called “woke capitalism” by the right and “greenwashing” by the left. But to most investors, it’s just common sense.