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EV Sales Are Booming in America—for Now

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In March, President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the lawn of the White House to show off a line of electric vehicles, transforming, for a moment, the commander in chief into the car salesman in chief. Five months later, […]

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Texas Flood Relief Took a Back Seat to Trump’s Redistricting Demands: “It’s a travesty.”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, flash floods along the Guadalupe River killed 138 people and caused an estimated $1.1 billion in damage, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in Texas history. But just a week later, Texas found itself whiplashed into another crisis altogether: […]

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Legalizing Wolf Hunting in the US West Does Little to Prevent Livestock Loss

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Legalized wolf hunting in the western US has had only a minimal impact on preventing livestock loss, a new study led by the University of Michigan suggests. The research, published in Science Advances, compared data from Montana and Idaho, two states […]

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The Tiny Ocean Organisms That Could Help the Climate in a Big Way

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. They process so much of those two gases, […]

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America’s Mines Are Literally Throwing Away Critical Metals

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. […]

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Public Commenters Overwhelmingly Oppose EPA’s Plan to Curtail Key Climate Protections

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Experts and members of the public on Tuesday voiced overwhelming opposition to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to rescind its key greenhouse gas “endangerment finding” and vehicle emissions standards. That pushback came during the first of four scheduled public […]

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Trump’s USDA Eliminates Support for Renewable Energy, a Lifeline for Farmers

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Agriculture announced this week that it will stop funding wind and solar energy on American farmland, a move that continues the Trump administration’s attempts to kill incentives for renewables while it boosts support for fossil […]

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Installing Heat Pumps in Factories Could Save $1.5 Trillion—and 77,000 Lives

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For several years now, heat pumps have outsold gas furnaces in the United States. Instead of burning fossil fuels to generate warmth, these appliances use electricity—ideally provided by renewable sources like wind and solar—to transfer heat from even frigid outdoor air into a home. Many […]

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An Economy Based on Carbon Waste? Don’t Laugh. It Might Just Save Us.

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The US government is a big-time hoarder. At last count, in three locations—Denver, Fort Knox, and West Point—it had socked away 248,046,115.696 troy ounces of gold. One might think to round that to the nearest ounce, but at today’s prices, that extra 0.304 ounces of gold would fetch about $1,060 and the entire hoard is […]

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National Park Visitors Are Not Keen on Donald Trump’s Effort to Sanitize History

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As part of his administration’s war on “woke,” Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a worldview without inconvenient historical facts, comments […]

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Is Trump’s America Ready for Hurricanes?

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The peak of the hurricane season is upon us and forecasters are still anticipating higher than normal levels of activity, despite a relatively calm season so far. As of Wednesday afternoon, Tropical Storm Erin is churning in the Atlantic Ocean and moving […]

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Federal Budget Cuts Are Forcing Volunteers to Clean National Forest Toilets

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a private ranch in southeastern Wyoming in mid-June, mud squelched under our sterilized muck boots as we searched for one of North America’s most endangered amphibians. Adult Wyoming toads, raised in captivity by the US Fish and Wildlife […]

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