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![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
![Two 18-wheeler trucks pass through a neighborhood below an orange sky with a basketball hoop in the foreground.]()
The Biden administration is updating truck pollution standards
"We really should have been doing this yesterday"
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![Illustration: ice fishers, ice shacks, and hockey player floating on ice chunks on lake with orange and purple sunset]()
![Illustration: ice fishers, ice shacks, and hockey player floating on ice chunks on lake with orange and purple sunset]()
The Midwest defined itself by its winters. What happens when they disappear?
For Midwesterners, winter has long been a point of pride. Now, climate change is playing havoc with traditions.
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![Residential street with palm trees, houses, and cars; oil refinery in near background]()
![Residential street with palm trees, houses, and cars; oil refinery in near background]()
Democrats’ climate hopes are riding on a new environmental justice bill
Here's what Republicans had to say about it.
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![Gas refinery inside a blue silhouette of European countries]()
![Gas refinery inside a blue silhouette of European countries]()
Europe’s next climate challenge: Getting off Russian gas
Europe faces a balancing act: keeping the heat on while promising to eliminate natural gas entirely.
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![Photo: A sign showing a temperature of 133F in Death Valley, CA.]()
![Photo: A sign showing a temperature of 133F in Death Valley, CA.]()
A third of Americans are already facing above-average warming
Temperatures in 499 counties across West, Northeast, and upper Midwest US have already breached 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
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![White particles in a swirling cloud above the earth on dark blue background]()
![White particles in a swirling cloud above the earth on dark blue background]()
There’s an invisible ecosystem in the air — and climate change is disrupting it
New research shows how warmer temperatures could push atmospheric pathogens into new areas.
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![Pete Buttigieg stands between two black electric cars.]()
![Pete Buttigieg stands between two black electric cars.]()
Biden’s 500,000 EV charging stations get a $5 billion start
Pete Buttigieg on the administration's plan for ultrafast charging.
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![Cracking ice on Lake Erie captured by a Coast Guard helicopter.]()
![Cracking ice on Lake Erie captured by a Coast Guard helicopter.]()
Climate change brings thinner, more unstable ice to the Great Lakes
Average maximum ice cover on the lakes has fallen 22 percent over the last 50 years.
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![Multiple people in India lying on grass with a fountain in the background]()
![Multiple people in India lying on grass with a fountain in the background]()
The world’s poorest bear the burden of heat — and it’s getting worse
By 2100, they’ll see 23 more days of heat waves each year than the world’s richest.
