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Our Planet’s Twin Crises

October 8, 2024 - 14:55
In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Categories: Climate

Gulf of Mexico Ocean Temperatures Are Record Hot, Fueling Milton

October 8, 2024 - 14:00
Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.
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FEMA Faces Severe Staffing Shortage As Hurricane Milton Approaches Florida

October 7, 2024 - 17:32
Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
Categories: Climate

E.V. Tax Credits Are a Plus, but Flaws Remain, Study Finds

October 7, 2024 - 14:27
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
Categories: Climate

Anthony Fauci: My West Nile Virus Nightmare

October 7, 2024 - 13:20
What it’s like to get the neglected disease.
Categories: Climate

El cambio climático está secando el Amazonas, el mayor río del mundo

October 7, 2024 - 09:55
A medida que una sequía seca tramos del río Amazonas, Brasil recurre al dragado para tratar de mantener el flujo de alimentos, medicinas y personas a lo largo de la superautopista acuática.
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Hurricane Helene Shows There Is No ‘Climate Haven’

October 7, 2024 - 05:03
Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.
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Hurricane Helene School Closures Could Have Long-Term Impacts

October 7, 2024 - 05:03
School closures and traumatic experiences could affect children long after schools reopen. Experts worry that similar scenarios are happening with much more frequency because of climate change.
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Climate Change and the New Story We Need to Tell About It

October 6, 2024 - 09:00
We need to act as a single unified force to find ways to strike a lasting balance with our natural world.
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Climate Change Is Scorching Stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil

October 6, 2024 - 05:01
As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.
Categories: Climate

Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up.

October 6, 2024 - 05:00
Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.
Categories: Climate

¿Afectado por Helene? Estos 9 consejos te ayudarán a conseguir las indemnizaciones de las aseguradoras o FEMA

October 5, 2024 - 14:35
Los expertos ofrecen varias recomendaciones para que el proceso de recuperación sea exitoso. Esto es lo que hay que hacer y lo que hay que evitar.
Categories: Climate

The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating

October 5, 2024 - 11:56
After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.
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Hit by Disaster? How to Get What You Deserve From Insurers or FEMA

October 5, 2024 - 10:58
Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
Categories: Climate

A Deluge of Rain Poured Out of the Heavens. But There’s Still No Drinking Water.

October 4, 2024 - 22:08
City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.
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Supreme Court Lets Biden Plans on Mercury and Methane Move Forward

October 4, 2024 - 12:02
Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.
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At Least 14 Die as Floods Sweep Through Bosnia and Other Balkan States

October 4, 2024 - 07:44
A severe overnight rainstorm left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
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These Are Boom Times for ‘Degrowth’

October 4, 2024 - 05:00
The term has recently begun taking root in popular culture and policy.
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Chasing Down a Trail of Climate Conspiracies

October 4, 2024 - 03:00
Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.
Categories: Climate

The Climate Fix: Solutions for a Warming World

October 3, 2024 - 14:07
In our new weekly series, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise going toward stopping climate change.
Categories: Climate