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How air conditioning could keep everyone cool without cooking the planet
In a hotter world, people will need more cooling. But as more cooling appliances are installed, Earth will get hotter.
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How climate change fuels California’s biggest fires
Climate change is quite literally adding fuel to the flames of California's wildfires.
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Heat kills. Why don’t we talk about it that way?
The sun is ‘glorious,’ rain is ’nasty.' Could weather bias be killing us?
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Disasters are driving a mental health crisis. The only federal program to address it is underfunded.
From climate-fueled storms to COVID-19, mounting catastrophes are sowing stress and trauma.
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What crisis? The Republican National Convention totally ignored the climate.
There's solid support for regulating CO2 within the GOP. But you wouldn't know it from the party's convention.
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![A Pacific Gas and Electric firefighter walks down a road as flames approach in Fairfield, California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 19, 2020.]()
![A Pacific Gas and Electric firefighter walks down a road as flames approach in Fairfield, California during the LNU Lightning Complex fire on August 19, 2020.]()
A California plan for wildfires that actually matches the scale of the problem
Government agencies aim a firehose of money at wildfires.
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In Louisiana, grief surges with another storm. So does hope.
A Pelican State resident reflects on lessons learned — and actions taken — in the 15 years since Katrina changed the way we view the most vulnerable coastal communities.
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What it looked like after Hurricane Laura struck the Gulf Coast
Flooded, flattened, and ripped apart: Photos of Hurricane Laura’s damage.
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Smoke, heat, and COVID-19: Californians are caught between public health crises
The wildfires, the heat, and the pandemic are combining to make a particularly challenging public health stew.
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Even shut down, Texas oil refineries in Hurricane Laura’s path will emit nearly 4 million pounds of pollution
According to a Grist analysis, 9 plants on the Gulf Coast will produce excess hazardous chemicals while offline.
