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News Articles: climate change

Millions of monarch butterflies arrive each year in Mexico after travelling, in some cases, thousands of miles from the United States and Canada.

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  • Animals

What Happened To The Butterflies? Climate, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Migration

The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new report.

February 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Before the flood, Aaron Trigg says, there were baseball games and kids playing on the playground near his house in Rainelle. After the flood, that changed. "Now, it was just silence," he remembers. "It affected the spirit of the town."

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  • Science

A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat

More than 4 million homes face substantial risk of expensive flood damage, a research organization says. Communities where flood insurance is already unaffordable face potentially catastrophic damage.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher,
  • Huo Jingnan,
  • and 1 more
A lower-carbon natural gas flame burns on a stovetop at a NW Natural testing facility.

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  • Energy

Natural Gas Companies Have Their Own Plans To Go Low-Carbon

The companies face an existential threat as more governments and businesses move to tackle climate change. So a growing number have their own plans to decarbonize, by creating renewable gas.

February 21, 2021
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By:
  • Cassandra Profita
Seaside Sparrow

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  • Environment

In Georgia's Salt Marshes, An Interspecies Smackdown Is Rising

Scientists film a fish killing and eating a seaside sparrow’s hatchlings, an example of how climate change is upending ecosystems.

February 19, 2021
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  • Science Friday
Smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the sky at sunset in September near Emmet, Kan.

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  • Environment

U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Agreement On Climate Change

The United States on Friday officially rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change. The landmark 2016 accord is designed to limit global warming and avoid its potentially catastrophic impacts.

February 19, 2021
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By:
  • H.J. Mai
Author David Pogue and his new book "How To Prepare For Climate Change"

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Author David Pogue On ‘How To Prepare For Climate Change’

Thursday on Political Rewind: In his early days in office, President Biden has put coping with climate change near the top of his agenda. But New York Times best-selling author David Pogue doesn’t want us to wait for government fixes.

In his new book How To Prepare For Climate Change, Pogue tells us it’s time we learn to adapt to forces of nature that will continue to dramatically alter life as we know it.

February 04, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
President Biden has set a goal of making the U.S. carbon neutral by 2050, which will require steeper emissions cuts than the U.S. has ever achieved. To reach it, coal power would have to wane into a footnote, replaced by renewables like solar and wind.

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  • Environment

How Fast Will Biden Need To Move On Climate? Really, Really Fast

Scientists say the next decade is crucial for slowing climate change. To catch up, President Biden's environmental policies will have to move faster than any in history.

February 03, 2021
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  • Lauren Sommer
Union Station and the Kansas City skyline are lit on Feb. 01, 2021 in Kansas City, Mo. In June 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its plan to move two of its research agencies out of Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City area. Rather than move, most of the people working at the agencies quit, leaving gaping holes in critical divisions.

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  • National

USDA Research Agencies 'Decimated' By Forced Move. Undoing The Damage Won't Be Easy

When the Trump administration moved two of the Agriculture Department's research agencies to Kansas City, many of the experienced employees left. Fixing this will be tricky for President Biden.

February 02, 2021
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By:
  • Frank Morris
Protesters attempt to block the delivery of toxic PCB waste to a landfill in Warren County, N.C., in 1982. It was in response to the state's decision to locate a hazardous waste landfill in a low-income, predominantly Black area of Warren County that the term "environmental racism" was first used by the Rev. Ben Chavis.

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  • Science

Hope And Skepticism As Biden Promises To Address Environmental Racism

People of color experience more air and water pollution than white people and suffer the health impacts. It has long been an underaddressed issue in the federal government.

January 30, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Baltimore is struggling to pay for the massive infrastructure and public health costs associated with global warming. As in many cities, flood risk has dramatically increased as the Earth has gotten hotter.

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  • Science

Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change

Overwhelmed sewers. Flooded streets. Deadly heat waves. Baltimore is one of many American cities where the costs of climate change far exceed local resources. Should oil companies pay?

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.

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  • Science

Trump EPA Erects New Barriers To Crucial Science

Studies based on private health data are crucial to understanding dangers posed by pollution. A new rule makes it harder for the EPA to consider many studies when setting safeguards.

January 05, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Hurricane Laura sends large waves crashing on a beach in Cameron, La., on Aug. 26 as an offshore oil rig appears in the distance. The most active hurricane season on record was just one of many challenges facing the oil industry this year — aside from the attention-grabbing crisis of the pandemic.

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  • Business

It Wasn't Just The Pandemic: Oil's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

The coronavirus-induced collapse in oil demand stole all the headlines. But oil companies faced a myriad of other woes, too, from hurricanes to itchy investors — and, of course, climate change.

January 03, 2021
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Maria Procopio of the Tybee Island Marine Science Center

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  • Environment

Rhode Island Senator Pushes Coastal Coalition With Georgia On Climate Change

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been visiting Georgia, pushing for a joint effort on climate change.

December 31, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Michael Regan currently leads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and previously worked on air quality policy at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • Science

Biden To Pick North Carolina Regulator Michael Regan To Lead EPA

Regan is the top environmental regulator for North Carolina. He would be first African American man to run the EPA, and he would oversee much of the federal government's response to climate change.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
A jetliner arrives at London's Heathrow Airport earlier this year. On Wednesday, the U.K.'s highest court reversed a ban on the airport's controversial plans for a third runway.

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  • Europe

U.K.'s Top Court Lifts Ban On Heathrow's Plans For 3rd Runway

The unanimous judgment represents a stinging reversal for climate activists, who had won a lower-court ruling earlier this year against the major international hub on environmental grounds.

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
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