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Our Planet’s Twin Crises
In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Gulf of Mexico Ocean Temperatures Are Record Hot, Fueling Milton
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
Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
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E.V. Tax Credits Are a Plus, but Flaws Remain, Study Finds
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.
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Anthony Fauci: My West Nile Virus Nightmare
What it’s like to get the neglected disease.
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El cambio climático está secando el Amazonas, el mayor río del mundo
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’
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
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
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
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.
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Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up.
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.
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¿Afectado por Helene? Estos 9 consejos te ayudarán a conseguir las indemnizaciones de las aseguradoras o FEMA
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.
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The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating
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
Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
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A Deluge of Rain Poured Out of the Heavens. But There’s Still No Drinking Water.
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
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
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’
The term has recently begun taking root in popular culture and policy.
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Chasing Down a Trail of Climate Conspiracies
Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.
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The Climate Fix: Solutions for a Warming World
In our new weekly series, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise going toward stopping climate change.
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