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What if the answer to California’s wildfire woes is more fire?
What if the answer to California's wildfire woes is more fire?
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What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?
The Ocean Cleanup project has an idea where all the plastic is going. Some scientists say it's trash.
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5 ways we need to adapt to climate change — or pay the price
A new report argues that big investments in adaptation measures will not only avert environmental catastrophe but also reap significant returns.
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Are we overestimating how much trees will help fight climate change?
Research suggests that forests may store far less carbon than we think.
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This group is teaching new sailors how to tackle plastic pollution
Greta Thunberg isn’t the only one setting sail to save the planet.
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Wait, melting glaciers are helping capture carbon?
If you were looking for a way out of our impending climate doom, however, this ain’t it.
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The Trump administration tried to bury a climate study on … rice?
“The USDA is part of a federal administration that can only be described in legal terms as ‘exhibiting depraved indifference to climate change.’”
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We’ve got another ozone problem, and it’s not what you think
The beneficial ozone up in the stratosphere has an evil cousin, and it’s right here on the ground.
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The climate change ‘tipping point’ has already arrived for these 70 U.S. counties
It’s not your imagination: your city may be getting hotter faster than the rest of the U.S.
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Alaska, barren of sea ice, saw its hottest July in 125 years
The heat helped spur wildfires that shrouded much of the state in smoke.