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![France Olivier Giroud Qatar 2022 World Cup]()
![France Olivier Giroud Qatar 2022 World Cup]()
Lessons from the World Cup: How a changing climate is changing sports
From professional to youth leagues, a warming planet is forcing athletes to adapt to new extremes.
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![Collage: dried up reservoir, cows drinking from a water trough, greenhouses with marijuana plants]()
![Collage: dried up reservoir, cows drinking from a water trough, greenhouses with marijuana plants]()
Water thieves abound in dry California. Why are they so hard to catch?
A short-staffed state agency struggles to catch rogue water users.
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![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
![Map of Chico, California, with bottom half covered in a photo of a wildfire and a line of flames bisecting the two images]()
This California city needs housing. But is a new development destined to burn?
Still reeling from the 2018 Camp Fire, Chico residents are divided over a large new subdivision planned in the path of the last blaze.
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![A lake in the shape of an airplane in the middle of untouched nature, illustrating the issue of sustainable travel]()
![A lake in the shape of an airplane in the middle of untouched nature, illustrating the issue of sustainable travel]()
Planning your 2023 travel? Skip these places in order to save them.
With environmental and cultural strains, places like Lake Tahoe could use a break
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![Collage: world map ripping in half in the middle; United States and European Union flags; 100 U.S. dollar bill and Euro bill; COP27 logo]()
![Collage: world map ripping in half in the middle; United States and European Union flags; 100 U.S. dollar bill and Euro bill; COP27 logo]()
Inside the COP27 fight to get wealthy nations to pay climate reparations
How developing countries' 30-year battle for "loss and damage" funding culminated in a new agreement in Egypt.
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![A group of Nigerians standing in flooded waters carry supplies onto a military truck after devastating flooding in September 2022.]()
![A group of Nigerians standing in flooded waters carry supplies onto a military truck after devastating flooding in September 2022.]()
Climate change made deadly rainfall in West Africa 80% more likely to happen
A new study says climate change also made the weather 20 percent wetter.
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![Collage: canyon hills and water reflecting the sky, with watercolor sky and an orange sun; water droplet shapes have been cut out of the water]()
![Collage: canyon hills and water reflecting the sky, with watercolor sky and an orange sun; water droplet shapes have been cut out of the water]()
Tribes in the Colorado River Basin are fighting for their water. States wish they wouldn’t.
Indigenous nations have significant water rights, but many lack the infrastructure to take advantage of them.
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![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
![Floodwater surrounds a farm near Craig, Missouri.]()
9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade, report finds
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.”
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![Governor Gavin Newsom stands next to a car holding an electric charger pointing it as though it were a gun]()
![Governor Gavin Newsom stands next to a car holding an electric charger pointing it as though it were a gun]()
How California’s initiative to fund electric vehicles went terribly wrong
Prop 30 had widespread support. Then Governor Newsom and billionaires got involved.
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![The Ellis maximum security prison in Texas]()
![The Ellis maximum security prison in Texas]()
Study: Extreme heat responsible for hundreds of deaths in Texas prisons
Texas officials claimed that no prisoners have been killed by heat. A new report shows they're wrong.
