Climate Desk
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House Democrats demand climate be ‘centerpiece’ of 2020 presidential debates
In 2016, debate moderators did not ask a single question about the climate crisis. Dozens of lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
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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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Democrats’ climate plan takes aim at the fossil fuel industry’s political power
A three-part plan aims to expose the industry’s efforts to conceal the scale of the climate crisis, reform laws, and sway support.
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New York City’s hottest new energy fight
Oil-fired power plants want to build new gas replacements just as a fresh slate of anti-fossil fuel legislators heads to Albany.
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Donald Trump, Kanye West, and a weird western bird are all somehow involved in a major conservation battle
“This is about the very survival of an ecosystem and the non-desertification of Western North America.”
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The first undeniable climate change deaths
In 2018 in Japan, more than 1,000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming.
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COVID-19 canceled mass protests. Here’s what youth climate activists are doing instead.
Phone banks, social media, and friend-to-friend campaigning are the new focus ahead of this year’s U.S. elections.
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The election could ultimately decide the Dakota Access Pipeline’s fate
The controversial oil route once again fended off an order to shut down — for now.
