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News Articles: climate

A mountain lion photographed with a motion sensor camera in the Verdugo Mountains overlooking the city lights of Los Angeles. New money for wildlife crossings will help animals whose habitat has been cut by roadways.

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  • Animals

Our roads are killing wildlife. The new infrastructure law aims to help

For the first time, the federal government is making a sizeable investment in wildlife road crossings. The goal is to help slow extinctions, and also protect people from animal collisions.

February 10, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott and
  • Ryan Kellman
Heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida flooded roads and expressways in New York in 2021. In a hotter climate, rainstorms are becoming more intense.

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  • Climate

An unexpected item is blocking cities' climate change prep: obsolete rainfall records

Cities are experiencing heavier storms and flooding as the climate gets hotter. But due to outdated rainfall records, many are still building infrastructure for the climate of the past.

February 09, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
Quelccaya glacier in Peru, photographed in 2015. Glaciers in the Andes mountains contain significantly less water than previously thought, according to a new study.

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  • Climate

Glaciers are shrinking fast. Scientists are rushing to figure out how fast

Billions of people rely on glaciers for drinking water, hydropower and irrigation. A raft of new research suggests there is less ice left than previously thought.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

Corporate climate pledges are weaker than they seem, a new study reports

Many companies mislead by using accounting practices that make their environmental goals relatively meaningless or exclude parts of their businesses in their calculations, NewClimate Institute finds.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People make their way home during bad weather in Tamatave, Madagascar, Feb. 5, 2022.

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  • Weather

An estimated 45,000 people have been displaced by a cyclone in Madagascar

The cyclone has caused widespread damage by blowing the roofs off homes, knocking down trees and utility poles, making roads impassable and flooding many areas.

February 06, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A courseworker removes a gate flag following the postponement of the men's downhill due to high winds on day two of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Alpine Ski Center.

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  • Sports

High winds derail men's downhill ski final at the Winter Olympics

Referees postponed the men's downhill alpine ski event after officials decided high winds at the Yanqing course posed a safety risk. This comes after multiple days of practice cancellations.

February 06, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Flared natural gas is burned off at a natural gas plant. Methane, the main ingredient in natural gas, can leak from natural gas plants and pipelines.

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  • Climate

A satellite finds massive methane leaks from gas pipelines

A satellite has detected massive leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from natural gas plants and pipelines. Most of these releases are deliberate, resulting from sloppy pipeline repairs.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Dan Charles
Downtown Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall in 2018. Storms like Florence, with both heavy rain and very high tides, are projected to get more common as the Earth gets hotter.

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  • Climate

A new study predicts a huge increase in catastrophic hurricanes for the northeastern U.S.

When hurricanes cause both extreme high tides and heavy rains, devastating floods ensue. Such storms will get much more frequent by the end of the century, according to a new study.

February 03, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
On Dec. 30, 2021, wildfires ignited and tore through Boulder County in Colorado. By the next day, residential streets like this one in Louisville were unrecognizable: houses leveled, cars stripped to bare metal.

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  • Music Features

Listening to Burial at the end of the world

This winter, wildfires brought the reality of climate change to one reporter's backyard. The music of the icy British producer Burial was the only thing that could make it all make sense.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Miguel Otárola
Christopher Glenn of Melrose, Ore., installed a home standby generator after a 2019 snowstorm knocked out power to his house and business for a week.

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  • National

Home generator sales are booming with mass outages, climate change and COVID

More extreme weather can mean extended blackouts, and it's especially disruptive for those working at home. Owners and experts offer guidance on what kind of generator to get and how to use it safely.

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Heavy rain and storm surge from Hurricane Ida caused flooding from Louisiana to New England in September 2021. Homes in the town of French Settlement, La., were still underwater four days after the storm made landfall. Climate change is driving more flood risk in the U.S.

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  • Climate

Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds

Climate change means more flood risk from rising seas, hurricanes and heavy rain. Black communities in the southern U.S. are in the crosshairs, according to a new analysis.

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
A man fishes near docked oil drilling platforms in 2020 in Port Aransas, Texas. A federal judge has revoked oil and gas leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in November, saying the Interior Department did not take into account its impact on climate change.

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  • Climate

A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change

The ruling revokes leases sold in the Gulf of Mexico in the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. It says the Interior Department failed to consider the greenhouse gases it would produce.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
Gas stoves emit pollution into your house and are connected to a production and supply system that leaks the powerful greenhouse gas methane during drilling, fracking, processing and transport.

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  • Climate

Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they're off

A study finds tiny leaks from loose fittings added up to more emissions than when stoves were in use. The impact of U.S. gas stoves on climate change amounts to the same effect as a half-million cars.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
A road collapsed onto train tracks in Baltimore, Md. in 2014 after heavy rain. The city is facing millions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades to cope with the effects of climate change.

Tagged as: 

  • Climate

Lawsuit alleging oil companies misled public about climate change moves forward

The case brought by Baltimore is one of more than 20 similar lawsuits nationwide that seek to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change.

January 26, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Red Cross teams set up a temporary shelter in Kanokupolu, western Tongatapu, on Friday as the Tonga island group grapples with the aftermath from the recent underwater volcanic eruption.

Tagged as: 

  • World

COVID outbreak on relief ship causes fears of spread in Tonga

Since the pandemic began, Tonga has reported just a single case of COVID-19 and has avoided any outbreaks.

January 25, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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