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In recent days, the mayors of Honolulu and Maui County announced plans to file lawsuits against major fossil fuel companies for damages resulting from climate change.
Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions. In a decade full of big talk and epic battles, they all failed.
Scientists have struggled to link DDT and cancer. Then a library of frozen blood changed everything.
"We need to see what nature is trying to tell us here. We need to recognize that we’re playing with fire.”
“By separating housing policy from climate change, we’re doing a disservice to our ability to create safe spaces, particularly among those communities who don't have a choice about where to live.”
Even in the face of a global pandemic.
The first seagrass restoration project in Britain will capture carbon and offer habitat for lost marine life.
The U.S. just got its climate report card for the year, and it's kinda OK.
If Governor Tony Evers’ signs this bill into law, protesters could face up to six years in jail.