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A Surprisingly Powerful Tool to Make Cities More Livable

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’ve spent any time on a roof, you know that it’s not especially pleasant up there—blazing in the summer, frigid and windy in the winter. Slap some solar panels up there, though, and the calculus changes: Shaded from gusts […]

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Biofuels Push at COP30 Could Accelerate Climate Crisis and Threaten Food Supply

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Despite their positioning as a green alternative, experts warn biofuels expansion could have catastrophic consequences.

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Iran’s Capital Must Relocate Due to Dire Water Situation, President Insists

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tehran is running out of water. Rationing has begun in Iran’s capital city, with some of the approximately 10 million residents experiencing “nightly pressure cuts” between midnight and 5 am. The entire country is in an unprecedented drought, facing its driest—and hottest—autumn in nearly […]

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How the Federal Shutdown Broke America’s Food Chain

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a dramatic twist of political defections and contentious concessions, the longest ever federal shutdown came to a close last week as Congress finally managed to agree on a deal to reopen the government. Federal agencies are now beginning to […]

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This Ohio County Banned Commercial Wind and Solar. Not So Fast, Residents Said.

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restrictions on solar and wind farms are proliferating around the country, with scores of local governments going as far as to forbid large-scale clean-energy developments. Now, residents of an Ohio county are pushing back on one such ban on renewables—a move that […]

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“I Was Contaminated”: New Study Reveals Widespread Pesticide Exposure

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For decades, Khoji Wesselius has noticed the oily scent of pesticides during spraying periods when the wind has blown through his tiny farming village in a rural corner of the Netherlands. Now, after volunteering in an experiment to count […]

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The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do?

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The pace of freshwater depletion is staggering. An area twice the size of California is drying up annually.

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The Shutdown Will Worsen Hunger—Which the Trump Administration Just Stopped Tracking

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal government shutdown is stretching into a second week with no end in sight. As Democrats and Republicans in Congress face a politically charged funding impasse, nutrition experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding […]

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New Map Shows Where Cancer-Causing Chemicals Are Polluting Water for Over 200M

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The map focuses on arsenic, chromium-6, and nitrate — all scientifically known to cause cancer and other health issues.

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Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process?

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This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. . When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write his third book, he was determined not to produce a “Debbie Downer.” And he hasn’t. That’s surprising considering his latest book, We’re Eating the […]

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Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millenia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage

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When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.

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