The loss of staffing and programs is one more blow to the US’s ability to respond to and recover from disasters.
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DOGE Has Gutted AmeriCorps. What Happens When the Next Disaster Strikes? Read Post »
This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. As an ice storm slicked roads across eastern Michigan on February 6, representatives from four houses of worship arrived at the offices of Democratic US Sen. Gary Peters. They wanted Peters to pressure the Trump administration to lift the […]
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Redlining Shaped the Power Grid. Communities of Color Are Still Paying the Price. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size of Colorado. “The native Amazonian peoples have probably never […]
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How Pope Leo Will Approach Climate Change Is Unclear, but the Vibe Is Positive Read Post »
This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Laura Beth Resnick was delivering snapdragons and anemones to clients near the White House when she got the news: In his first wave of executive orders, President Donald Trump had frozen all projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, one of his […]
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Trump’s Assault on Small Farmers Read Post »
Even a single day of exposure to extreme heat can lead to complications for pregnant people.
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Heat-Risk Days for Pregnant People Have Doubled Worldwide Over Last 5 Years Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cars and meat are major factors driving a gender gap in greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. Men emit 26 pecent more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food, according to a preprint study of 15,000 people in France. The gap shrinks to […]
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Dudes Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Women Do. It’s the Cars—and the Meat. Read Post »
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For more than half a century, US intelligence agencies and the armed forces have analyzed threats to national security from a range of environmental angles, including dependence on fossil fuels, competition for scarce water resources and […]
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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Did you check the weather forecast today? Whether it was on your phone, the five-day outlook in your newspaper, or your friendly TV meteorologist, that forecast was built on a massive government-run network of sensors and computers that get the weather […]
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Your Weather Forecasts Are About to Get a Lot Less Accurate Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study. While researchers have previously shown that higher income groups emit disproportionately large amounts […]
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Top-Earning 10 Percent Responsible for the Majority of Global Warming, Study Finds Read Post »
2024 was the hottest year in human history, and countries show no signs of reining in planet-wrecking fossil fuels.
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Climate Justice Organizers Hold Mock Funeral for 1.5ºC Paris Agreement Target Read Post »
This story was originally published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are trillions upon trillions of numbers in the world. We use numbers to describe almost every conceivable thing in the universe. But there is one number that surpasses all others for the enormous impact it will […]
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How Trump’s Dismantling of NOAA Threatens the Keeling Curve—and Why That Matters Read Post »
This story was originally published by bioGraphic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Steps from a public bathroom, across a narrow street from a home goods store in Tokyo, Japan, a tangle of delicate reddish stems fringed with rubbery emerald leaves pokes from a crack in the pavement. Smaller than a discarded Big […]
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