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Federal Judge Nixes Rule That Enabled Clearcutting in the Name of Taming Wildfires

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A niche rule established by the US Forest Service to justify the clearing of tens of thousands of acres of forest in the name of reducing wildfire risk was unlawfully created and applied, the Oregon US District Court found […]

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RFK Jr.’s Proteinaceous Food Pyramid Is a Land Hog and a Climate Disaster

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come at a major cost to the planet via huge swathes of habitat razed for farmland and millions of tons of extra planet-heating emissions. A new […]

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Congressional Compromise Bill Rejects Trump’s Worst Environmental Cuts

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Senate passed a limited spending package on Thursday that will largely fund several science- and land-related agencies, including the Department of Interior, the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the US Environmental Protection […]

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She Fought for Indigenous Voices at the UN. Now She’s in a Russian Jail Cell.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what international observers are calling “retribution” for her United Nations advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.  Daria Egereva, an Indigenous Selkup woman from the city […]

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A Flood-Plagued African City Sets Out to Reengineer Its Wetlands

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maurice Manishimwe runs a small garage beside a fuel station in Musango village, just outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, in a nation known as the land of a thousand hills. Sandwiched between one of those hills and the Nyabugogo […]

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These Researchers Are Working to Quantify the Value of Nature

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In an era of rapid globalization, economic growth has come with trade-offs. To make room for urban development or fossil fuel extraction, countries often clear forests, pollute water and decimate wildlife populations.  However, while nations and businesses build […]

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In the Eyes of Trump’s EPA, Human Health Is Now Literally Worthless

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This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, the agency […]

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Scary Findings on Microplastics in Our Bodies May Be Flawed. That’s Good—and Bad.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell.” Studies claiming […]

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This Bill Could Add to Mobile Home Residents’ Already Outsize Energy Costs

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Friday morning, the US House of Representatives approved a bill that would get the Department of Energy (DOE) out of the business of energy standards for mobile homes, also known as manufactured homes, and could set the efficiency requirements back decades.  Advocates […]

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LA Wildfire Victims Remain Stuck in Toxic Homes: “We Have Nowhere Else to Go”

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One year on from the Eaton Fire, long after the vicious winds that sent embers cascading from the San Gabriel mountains and the flames that swallowed entire streets, a shadow still hangs over Altadena. Construction on new properties is under way, and […]

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