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When the Flash Flood Comes With Godlike Velocity, Why Do I Stay and Watch?

August 31, 2024 - 08:11
This series of floods didn’t force us to leave. But the next ones might.
Categories: Climate

I Swore Off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too

August 31, 2024 - 07:00
The more time we can spend outside or inside without the air-conditioner blasting, the better prepared we’ll be — both to slow climate change and to adapt to it.
Categories: Climate

Business Group Sues Texas Officials Over Law That Shields Oil Industry

August 30, 2024 - 16:20
The suit challenges a measure that prohibits state entities like retirement funds from doing business with firms that “boycott energy companies.”
Categories: Climate

Turbine Blades Have Piled Up in Landfills. A Solution May Be Coming.

August 30, 2024 - 11:16
Wind power has a waste problem that has been difficult to solve. Turbine blades made from a new plant-based material could make them recyclable.
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Silicon Valley Wants to Fight Fires With Fire

August 30, 2024 - 10:54
How some high-tech entrepreneurs are trying to use new forms of technology to solve the problem of mega-wildfires in the age of climate change.
Categories: Climate

Climate Change Comes to the Tetons

August 29, 2024 - 19:02
In one of North America’s most stunning mountain ranges, melting glaciers and warmer temperatures are raising fears of ecological tipping points.
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Climate-Friendly Meat? Regulators Tighten Scrutiny of Label Buzzwords.

August 29, 2024 - 18:14
The new guidelines from the Agriculture Department encourage third-party assessments of environment-related claims, which have come under fire.
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100-Plus Tons of Dead Fish Swamp a Greece Port

August 29, 2024 - 17:40
The mass deaths of the fish were most likely caused by climate change. The vacation area and its businesses have been suffering since.
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South Korean Court Orders Stronger Steps on Climate Change

August 29, 2024 - 08:15
A ruling by the Constitutional Court declared the nation’s current measures insufficient and a violation of the rights of future generations.
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Canada’s Wildfires Were a Top Global Emitter Last Year, Study Says

August 28, 2024 - 13:25
The blazes produced more planet-warming carbon than almost any country, researchers found. That could upend key calculations on the pace of global warming.
Categories: Climate

Solar Power’s Spread and Cheap Price Will Change the Climate

August 28, 2024 - 11:33
The price of solar power is plummeting faster than we ever expected.
Categories: Climate

How R.F.K. Jr. Went From Environmental Champion to Trump Backer

August 27, 2024 - 18:40
Kennedy’s former co-workers in the environmental movement aren’t surprised that he endorsed Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax.”
Categories: Climate

Heat Deaths Have Doubled in the U.S. in Recent Decades, Study Finds

August 27, 2024 - 17:06
The finding comes as a late-August heat wave bears down on a significant part of the country.
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Is This Massive Attack Concert the Gold Standard for a Green Gig?

August 27, 2024 - 11:26
Coldplay and Billie Eilish have tried to drive down carbon emissions while touring, but the British band Massive Attack has tried to take the efforts even further.
Categories: Climate

Deadly Landslide Strikes Ketchikan, Alaska

August 26, 2024 - 17:20
The disaster killed one person and injured three in the town. Researchers said heavy rains preceding the disaster may have played a role.
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Hungry for Clean Energy, Facebook Looks to a New Type of Geothermal

August 26, 2024 - 15:37
As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
Categories: Climate

Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean’s Deepest Secrets

August 26, 2024 - 05:02
The JOIDES Resolution, which for decades was key to advancing the understanding of the Earth and its innards, concluded what could be its final scientific expedition.
Categories: Climate

The Complex Climate Change Politics for Maine’s Lobstermen

August 25, 2024 - 09:00
There are places in America where climate change feels close at hand — and also far away from politics, partly because of how much work there is to do.
Categories: Climate

Mexico’s President Bet Big on Oil. His Successor Will Be Stuck With the Tab.

August 24, 2024 - 05:00
Mexico’s next leader, Claudia Sheinbaum, is a climate scientist who has signaled a clean energy pivot. But a huge wager on fossil fuels by her political mentor stands in her way.
Categories: Climate

Global Warming Forces Tennis Officials to Make Changes to the US Open

August 24, 2024 - 03:00
The tennis tournament, like the rest of New York City, is adapting to climate change.
Categories: Climate