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The state of the climate crisis

Earth will soon cross a scary climate change threshold. What happens next?

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The future of the planet hinges on understanding these 5 key phrases

There’s less meat at this year’s climate talks. But there’s plenty of bull.

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Christine Parthemore is training a generation to tackle a world of interlocking threats

Airlines say they’ve found a route to climate-friendly flying

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Zahra Biabani wants Gen Z to feel hopeful about the future

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Maisa Rojas is putting political power behind climate science

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Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress

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Genesis Butler is leading the next generation of animal and climate activists

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Jesse Jenkins is figuring out how to electrify America’s power grid

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Robinson Meyer is demystifying what decarbonizing the economy really means

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is building a theory of justice for a warming world

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Hannah Ritchie fights climate doomerism with facts

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Priya Donti is harnessing AI to fight climate change

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Jane Flegal is doing whatever she can to fight climate change

Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money.

Mud libraries hold the story of the Earth’s climate past — and foretell its future

Are your holiday meals pricier this year? Blame extreme heat.

Biden gives center stage to the climate report Trump tried to bury

Joe Manchin deserves (some) credit for fighting climate change

How the fossil-fuel lobby weaponized Julia Child’s gas stove

It takes more than trees to build a livable city

Lahaina schools are open again. Parents worry they’re ridden with toxic waste.

Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts

Why more fossil fuel workers aren’t joining the clean energy revolution

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How China is designing flood-resistant cities

The propane industry’s weird obsession with school buses, explained

How Hurricane Otis defied forecasts and exploded into a deadly storm overnight

Water-hungry golf courses plague Arizona’s native javelina-filled landscape

The World Bank can bring the world’s poor into the clean energy revolution

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Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

These strange underwater animals could save our lives. If we don’t destroy them first.

Why Biden’s multibillion-dollar bet on hydrogen energy is such a big deal

It’s not just Paris. There’s a “global resurgence” of bedbugs.

What happens if you force companies to reveal how much they contribute to climate change?

What Salt Lake City gets right about downtown

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El Niño is nowhere near done wreaking havoc on the world’s weather

How a tiny island is adapting to climate change ... on its dinner plates

We know where the next big earthquakes will happen — but not when

The Winnemem Wintu won land back for their tribe. Here’s what’s next.

It’s clearer than ever that we’re pushing the Amazon rainforest to its dreaded demise