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Joshua trees are dying. This new legislation hopes to tackle that
The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help.
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Last month was the planet's hottest June on record by a huge margin
June was the hottest such month on record for the planet by a “substantial margin,” the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Thursday.
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Yes, it’s hot. But this could be one of the coolest summers of the rest of your life.
Heat waves like those in Texas and Europe are likely to get worse on the whole, not better.
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El Niño has officially begun. UN says phenomenon likely to threaten lives, break temperature records
The warmest year ever recorded, 2016, started off with a powerful El Nino that helped to boost global temperatures.
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Climate anxiety is a real, pervasive feeling. Here’s how to handle it.
Help your mind — and the earth — manage the uncertainty of climate change.
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Batteries And Renewables Are Saving Texas During The Heat Wave
Renewables and storage are saving Texans money as temperatures soar and coal and natural gas power plants fail.
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How We Scapegoat Climate Change Migrants
Why we are not more positive toward those displaced by climate change?
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NASA Reveals Astonishing Video of Visible Earth Emissions
In its videos, NASA relies on data from 2021. There are four colors used to represent the main sources of carbon dioxide. Fossil fuels are depicted in orange, biomass burning in red, terrestrial ecosystems in green, and ocean ecosystems in blue.
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Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way?
High above the Las Vegas Strip, solar panels blanketed the roof of Mandalay Bay Convention Center — 26,000 of them, rippling across an area larger than 20 football fields. From this vantage point, the sun-dappled Mandalay Bay and Delano hotels dominated the horizon, emerging like comically large golden scepters from the glittering black panels. Snow-tipped mountains rose to the west.
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Constitutional climate trial ends, verdict could take 'months'
The nation’s first youth-led constitutional climate trial ended Tuesday in Helena. Sixteen young people are suing Montana state leaders for allegedly violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by promoting fossil fuel policies and contributing to climate change.
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Himalayan glaciers melting 65 percent faster than previous decade: study
Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists…
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A wealth tax could help poorer countries tackle climate crisis, economists say
Taxing world’s wealthiest people could help poorer countries shift economies to low-carbon and recover from climate damage
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World leaders headed to Paris summit in push for global debt, climate reform
French President Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at building a "new consensus" to meet the interlinked global targets of tackling poverty, curbing planet-heating emissions and protecting nature. Ideas on the table range from taxation on shipping, fossil fuels or financial transactions, to innovations in lending and a structural rethink of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.
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Climate expert: ‘The harm will get worse’
Scientific testimony figures prominently in second day of Held v. Montana climate trial.
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'A war for water': Europe sounds the alarm on water stress ahead of another extreme summer
European lawmakers issued a stark warning about the region’s growing water crisis ahead of another extreme summer, saying there is a pressing need to tackle issues such as scarcity, food security and pollution.
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‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial
Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change at the young age of four, when his parents showed him the documentary Chasing Ice. “I understood it more than my parents thought I would,” he testified in a groundbreaking trial on Tuesday. “I just knew something bad was happening, but I didn’t know exactly what it was.”
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Climate change warnings started in the late 1800s. Here's what humanity knew and when.
Political misinformation continues to swirl around the climate change discussion like a thick fog rolling in off the rising ocean. But a host of government documents and reports by researchers and historians lay a clear trail of what scientists and government officials knew and when.
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2 out of 3 North American bird species face extinction. Here's how we can save them
As the climate crisis worsens, so does pressure on wildlife. The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years.
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In a first, a climate lawsuit from young people is going to trial
Sixteen young people who say the state isn’t doing enough to address climate change will get their day in court Monday. The lawsuit argues that lack of action violates plaintiffs’ rights under the state Constitution. This is the first youth climate lawsuit to ever make it all the way to trial in the U.S.
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Arctic Summer Could Be Practically Sea-Ice-Free by the 2030s
In a new study, scientists found that the climate milestone could come about a decade sooner than anticipated, even if planet-warming emissions are gradually reduced.
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