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Renewable energy outpaced coal in April for the first time ever
Renewable energy had a little spring in its step this year.
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Indonesia might need a new capital because of climate change
Jakarta is sinking thanks to groundwater extraction and rising sea levels. The president wants to move the capital.
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Beto’s first major 2020 policy proposal is a $5 trillion climate plan
The presidential hopeful unveiled what he called “the most ambitious climate plan in the history of the United States” in a 40-second Twitter video, gesticulating wildly on a backdrop of luscious flora in Yosemite Valley, California.
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The U.S. is going to want to hide its air quality report card from its parents
How do you protect yourself against an invisible enemy that's all around you and inseparable from the air you need to survive? Meet pollution.
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Climate movement grandpa James Hansen says the Green New Deal is ‘nonsense’
His solution to climate catastrophe? You may want to sit down for this one: a carbon tax.
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Coming soon to a state near you: Human composting?
Washington state is poised to become first state in the nation to legalize composting the dead.
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This GIF captures just how gigantic the U.S. carbon footprint is
President Trump likes to say that the “unfair” Paris agreement would have given China and India a free pass. Now, we have a mindblowing visualization of nations’ cumulative carbon footprints.
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The internet is ablaze with Lil Dicky’s bizarre, star-studded climate anthem
A dozen A-list musicians are singing about the environment because it's 2019 and things aren't weird enough, apparently.
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Russians used coal to sow discord among Americans, says Mueller report
About a third of Mueller’s long-awaited report, released on Thursday, has been redacted. But enough is left to determine that Russia tried to exacerbate America’s mixed feelings about coal in order to tip the election in Trump’s favor.