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Hurricane Season Begins with Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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As a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Hurricane Season Begins With Trump Gutting the “Gold Standard” Weather Services That Save Lives

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To a native Floridian, the six-month slog of hurricane season that begins June 1 and ends November 30 triggers a certain sense of impending doom. Whether you live by the beach or farther inland, the threat of a storm this time of year is always possible. I’ve experienced several hurricanes at this point, most recently […]

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Setting an Oyster Apocalypse to Music

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s declining oyster population to music, aiming to inform a receptive new audience about the “catastrophic” scale of the crisis. Heather O’Leary, professor of anthropology at St. Petersburg’s University of […]

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Antarctica Is in Extreme Peril

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, […]

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Kristi Noem Waives Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Wall Through a Wildlife Refuge

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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 Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem has waived the protections of the Endangered Species Act and other federal statutes to “ensure the expeditious construction” of the border wall through the Lower Rio […]

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

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After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. But 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding, especially during hurricane season. And, like much of the city, the […]

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Trump Administration Suspends Staff Who Pled to Save FEMA

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Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter accusing the Trump administration of politically motivated firings and “uninformed cost-cutting,” multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. As I wrote yesterday: In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former […]

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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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