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By: Mike Ludwig Polling shows that people in the United States are taking climate change more seriously today than they were five years ago, but views on climate change remain sharply divided along partisan lines as the November…
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By: Trone Dowd A poll conducted by VICE News, The Guardian and several partners shows that voters want job training for workers who left the fossil fuel industry as well as a carbon tax. A majority of U.S. voters want to see…
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By: Bill McKibben Captain Trump wants to steer us straight onto the rocks. This election is humanity’s last shot to prevent utter climate catastrophe. To understand the planetary importance of this autumn’s presidential…
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By: Lisa Held Fires rage in the West as storms, hurricanes, and floods hit the rest of the country. Progressives are pushing Biden to transform the food system and manage and mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Last…
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By: Colleen Hagerty A photo of a girl in a hoodie, skipping school to sit in front of a government building in Sweden with a no-frills sign: “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” or “School Strike for Climate”; a video of dozens of young…
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By: Jeff Berardelli Right on the heels of arguably the West Coast's most intense heat wave in modern history comes the most ferocious flare-up of catastrophic wildfires in recent memory. Meanwhile, just a few hundred miles…
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By: Kimberly White New Jersey schools will now be required to teach students about climate change. The New Jersey State Board of Education has adopted new guidelines to incorporate climate change education throughout its K-12…
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By: Vernon Loeb, Marianne Lavelle, Stacy Feldman Pursuing an unrelenting fossil fuel agenda, Trump has scaled back or eliminated over 150 environment measures, expanded Arctic drilling, and denied climate science. In the middle of…
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By: Rishika Pardikar As India moves toward ambitious climate goals, it is trampling on sacred groves in desert ecosystems. India has an ambitious target to generate 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022. Lands chosen to…
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By: Sharon Kelly Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QAnon’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered, for…
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By: Damian Carrington Drop in emissions was a blip, say scientists, and a green recovery is vital to halt global heating. The draconian coronavirus lockdowns across the world have led to sharp drops in carbon emissions, but this will…
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By: Joan Conrow As wildfires blaze throughout the American West, climate change skeptics are downplaying both their devastating impact on forests and the role of rising global temperatures in sparking infernos. This point of…
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By: Jeff Masters, Ph.D. Rapidly intensifying storms like Hurricanes Laura, Michael, and Harvey are dangerous because they can catch forecasters and the public off guard. Hurricane Laura put on a phenomenal show of rapid…
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By: Jeff Barardelli From the historic heat wave and wildfires in the West, to the massive derecho that tore through the middle of the nation, to the record-breaking pace of this year's hurricane season, the unprecedented and…
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By: Oliver Milman The US will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 US election and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher. It was a balmy June day in 2017 when Donald Trump took…
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By: Tim Hornyak New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from around the world gathered virtually in July for a joint conference of the Japan Geoscience…
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By: Kimberly White A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found that prioritizing nature isn’t just good for the planet but also good for business. World leaders, cities, companies, and individuals around…
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By: Jeff Barardelli If asked to recall a hurricane, odds are you'd immediately invoke memorable names like Sandy, Katrina or Harvey. You'd probably even remember something specific about the impact of the storm. But if asked to recall…
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By: Gurpreet Singh Water-guzzling rice consumes more water than Punjab can recharge. If current irrigation rates continue, the state will empty its groundwater reserves within 20 years. Punjab, a landlocked state in northern India,…
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By: Breanna Draxler By decolonizing the atmosphere and making climate reparations, Eric Holthaus shows just how hopeful the next 30 years could be. With the dire predictions of humanity’s prospects in the face of a changing…
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By: Bob Berwyn Centered in the equatorial tropics, Africa is the world's hottest continent, and millions of people there are facing a growing threat from deadly heat waves. But no one knows how many people have died or been…
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