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News Articles: climate change

Mojave National Preserve technician Ryan McRae observes the remnants of the Dome Fire.

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  • Environment

In a charred moonscape, a band of hopeful workers try to save the Joshua tree

After flames destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees in Mojave National Preserve, biologists began replanting seedlings. But many have died, and now another fire has torched more of the iconic succulents.

September 07, 2023
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By:
  • Christopher Intagliata
Commuters make their way down a smoggy road in Lahore, Pakistan in 2022. Extreme heat waves make air pollution, like smog, worse.

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  • Climate

Extreme heat makes air quality worse–that's bad for health

Air quality around the world suffered in 2022 because of climate-induced extreme heat, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Association.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Borunda
As oceans get hotter, scientists are looking for ways to safeguard coral species so they can be used to restore reefs in the future.

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  • Climate

One way to save coral reefs? Deep freeze them for the future

As oceans get hotter, coral reefs are suffering. Scientists are working on ways to preserve coral by freezing and then reviving them to restore reefs someday.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Police officers check a house as residents wade through a flooded street after floods caused by a cyclone in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Monday.

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  • Latin America

A cyclone has killed over 20 people in Brazil, with more flooding expected

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

September 06, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
A view of the Pakistani territory of Baltistan from the heights of the mountain above the village of Chunda. The patches of white in the foreground are snow and water. The patches of silver in the distance are clouds that shroud the peaks of most mountains in Baltistan. The territory boasts towering peaks, including K2, the world's second highest mountain.

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  • Environment

A glacier baby is born: Mating glaciers to replace water lost to climate change

Residents of Pakistan's Himalayan region turn to science and folklore, with backing from the U.N. They're erecting ice towers, harvesting avalanches and performing an ancient glacier ritual.

September 04, 2023
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid
A section of Norfolk's existing floodwall, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1971. It will be expanded as part of the new project.

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  • Climate

At risk from rising seas, Norfolk, Virginia, plans massive, controversial floodwall

Critics say the $2.6 billion floodwall project overlooks current climate risks and exposes flaws in how the federal government approaches major flood infrastructure.

September 02, 2023
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  • Katherine Hafner
Towering smoke plumes overshadowed California's town of Paradise as the Camp Fire raced through in 2018. More than 18,000 acres burned in a matter of hours.

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  • Climate

Climate change makes wildfires in California more explosive

A new study pins about 25% of the extra risk on human-caused climate change.

August 30, 2023
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  • Alejandra Borunda
From left to right: Former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley during the first Republican presidential primary debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

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  • Politics

Climate change made it in the GOP debate. Some young Republicans say that's a win

Climate change is a top issue for young voters across political parties, but most of the Republican presidential candidates avoided the question.

August 28, 2023
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Members of the Chumash tribe have pushed for a decade to create a new marine sanctuary. If created, it would be the first to be designated with tribal involvement from the outset.

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  • Climate

Biden proposes vast new marine sanctuary in partnership with California tribe

The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would make history as the first marine sanctuary to be managed with a tribe from the outset.

August 24, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
Members of the California National Guard's Task Force Rattlesnake clear brush and small trees to reduce the likelihood of a high-intensity wildfire.

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  • National

Hotter climate means a never-ending fire season for the National Guard

California has set up a permanent task force of National Guard members to do what used to be occasional work fighting and preventing wildfires.

August 23, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
In Suzanne Horsley's wellness classes at Toll Gate Grammar School in Pennington, N.J., elementary students learn about the health impacts of climate change. They play games that demonstrate what they have learned.

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  • Climate

New Jersey requires climate change education. A year in, here's how it's going

In 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to require climate change education across grade levels and in most subjects. The standards were rolled out this past year.

August 23, 2023
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  • Seyma Bayram
Rikki Held, 22, arrives for the United States' first youth climate-change trial at Montana's 1st Judicial District Court in Helena, Mont., on June 12. She was one of 16 young plaintiffs, ages 5 to 22, who sued the state for promoting fossil fuel energy policies that they say violate their constitutional right to a "clean and healthful environment."

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  • Climate

Montana youth climate ruling could set precedent for future climate litigation

A landmark youth climate ruling from Montana could have significant repercussions for future climate lawsuits, legal experts say.

August 23, 2023
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By:
  • Nathan Rott and
  • Seyma Bayram
Canada is in the midst of an unprecedented wildfire season, intensified by climate change. Firefighters came from all over the world to help, like this team from France, on the fire line north of Chibugamau, Quebec, in June.

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  • Climate

Some of Canada's wildfires likely made worse by human-driven climate change

Climate change intensified eastern Canada's hot, dry, windy weather this summer. That made Quebec's enormous burns about twice as likely, according to a new study.

August 22, 2023
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  • Alejandra Borunda
High-pressure circulation in the atmosphere acts like a dome or cap, trapping heat at the surface and favoring the formation of a heat wave.

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  • Weather

Georgia will experience a heat dome this week. Here's what that means and how you can prepare

Temperatures near or above 100 degrees with a dangerous heat index are expected across the state through Saturday.

August 21, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
Most of Georgia’s heat on July 26 was made at least 2-4 times more likely because of climate change on July 26. Climate Central

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  • Weather

GA’s record hot temps this summer connect to climate change. Now you can see for yourself

It’s been hot this summer. Searing, scorching, oppressively warm.

August 21, 2023
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  • Kala Hunter
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