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News Articles: climate

A thermal imaging device attached to an iPhone shows a range of temperatures with reds and oranges representing hot conditions. Some cities are mapping heat to better understand how to prepare for extreme temperatures.

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  • Climate

How mapping 'heat islands' can help cities prepare for extreme heat

Oklahoma City and several other cities last year worked with NOAA to map neighborhoods to find out how heat impacts neighborhoods. The data can help cities prepare and adapt to a warmer world.

February 01, 2024
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By:
  • Britny Cordera
John Podesta looks on during a meeting between President Biden and mayors at the White House on Jan. 19, 2024.

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  • Climate

Biden's new climate envoy is John Podesta. He has a big domestic climate job too

Longtime Democratic aide John Podesta will take over international climate talks from former Secretary of State John Kerry. He also oversees Biden's big domestic climate incentives.

January 31, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
In western Arizona, Ivan Bender, a Hualapai tribal member, points to an area, bordering Hualapai land, where an Australian mining company is exploring for lithium - a key metal in electric vehicle batteries.

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  • Climate

Demand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands

There's a growing demand for minerals as the world ramps up manufacturing of climate solutions. Experts say more than half of these mining projects are on or near lands of Indigenous peoples.

January 29, 2024
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By:
  • Julia Simon
A boat sails down the Calcasieu Ship Channel past Cameron LNG, one of three liquified natural gas export plants in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

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  • Climate

U.S. pauses build-out of natural gas export terminals to weigh climate impacts

The Biden administration announced Friday it's temporarily freezing any new natural gas export facilities while the Department of Energy reviews the implications on climate change.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • Halle Parker
Billie Eilish at the 32nd Environmental Media Association (EMA) Awards Gala in Los Angeles, Oct. 8 2022. The pop star is flanked by her mother Maggie Baird (left) and EMA CEO Debbie Levin.

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  • Arts & Life

Hollywood has been giving out climate change-focused awards for 33 years. Who knew?

Now in its 33rd year, the Environmental Media Awards might be the most celebrity-studded awards ceremony you've never heard of.

January 27, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Hotter than normal temperatures are exacerbating the megadrought that's depleted Western water reserves, like Elephant Butte Reservoir in southern New Mexico, new research finds.

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  • Research News

'Hot droughts' are becoming more common in the arid West, new study finds

Scientists looked at trees to better understand the interplay between temperatures and droughts in the Western U.S. Human-caused climate change is exacerbating both.

January 26, 2024
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
LanzaJet's Freedom Pines facility is located in Soperton, Georgia, about halfway between Savannah and Macon.

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  • Environment

Rural Georgia gets world's first sustainable jet fuel factory of its kind

Suburban Chicago-based LanzaJet unveiled on Wednesday its Freedom Pines facility in rural Soperton, about halfway between Savannah and Macon, before an audience of more than 200 people including state and federal government leaders.

January 25, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
People walk next to a cracked panel apartment building in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk in 2018. Climate change is causing permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, to thaw across the Arctic. When the earth thaws, it can destabilize building foundations, roads, pipelines and other infrastructure.

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  • Climate

Why the war in Ukraine is bad for climate science

The invasion of Ukraine hampered collaboration with Russian climate scientists. That's bad news for our collective ability to understand, and prepare for, a hotter planet.

January 22, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

Experts predict the global buzzwords that will shape the year ahead

2024 will be awash in new (and sometimes familiar) buzzwords that point up the polycrises (another buzzword) around the planet. Here's a guide for the perplexed.

January 22, 2024
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  • Andrew Connelly
We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher temperatures, shifting winds and changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

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  • Opinion

Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light

As a new year dawns, we asked our readers to send us their global wishes. Here's what they're hoping for.

January 21, 2024
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  • Gisele Grayson
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

Wind turbines on sacred Osage land must be removed, according to court ruling

A judge in Oklahoma has ordered the removal of a massive wind farm from tribal land because its owners failed to get proper permits more than a decade ago.

January 19, 2024
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  • Allison Herrera and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Massive trucks and front end loaders look ant sized relative to the coal piled in front of Georgia Power's Plant Scherer in this photo from 2019.

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  • Climate

Georgia Power says it needs more energy for industry. Critics say 'make it green'

Georgia Power says it needs more energy for new industry. Critics want to make sure the energy is clean.

January 16, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
hurricane damage

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  • Climate

STUDY: Poor communities wait longer to have power restored after extreme weather events

A study of over 500 counties in the Southeast finds that communities with higher than average poverty and unemployment rates wait much longer to get their power back after major storms, but more research is necessary to understand why. 

January 16, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
A view of the plume of gas lighted up by the lava from the erupting volcano seen from Suðurstrandavegur, the road that leads to Grindavík, Iceland, on Sunday.

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  • Weather

An Icelandic town is evacuated after a volcanic eruption sends lava into nearby homes

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the eruption began just before 8:00 a.m. local time Sunday about a half mile from the town of Grindavík after a series of intense earthquakes.

January 15, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
A cargo ship heads into port on Oct. 13, 2021, in Bayonne, N.J.

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  • Architecture

Shipping container buildings may be cool — but they're not always green

Shipping containers may seem like a sustainable construction material, but are they actually eco-friendly? Many people don't want a heavily-used container — and the energy bills are through the roof.

January 15, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
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