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Deadly Pacific Northwest Heatwave: ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Man-Made Warming
Science suggests that the heat dome event would have been "at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change."
The U.S. Is About to Go All in on Paying Farmers and Foresters to Trap Carbon
The problem is, it's unclear if "Carbon Offsets" even work
Say Goodbye to Climate-Hell June, Say Hello to Climate-Hell July
The Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Wednesday that June 2021 was the hottest ever in North America. It's not cooling down anytime soon
City Heat is Worse if You’re Not Rich or White. The World’s First Heat Officer Wants to Change That
Black and Hispanic residents of U.S. cities are around twice as exposed as white people to the “urban heat island effect”
ExxonMobil Lobbyist on Playbook for Plastic: “It’s Just Like on Climate Change”
In new secretly recorded conversations, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist explains the company's strategy to avoid accountability for plastic pollution and "forever chemicals" known as PFAS
Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda
The oil giant would like you to know that statements from its "Senior Director for Federal Relations" in no way represent its position on federal climate policy
Miami’s Climate Dystopia Gets Real
South Florida's real estate is only going to get more deadly if we continue to ignore all the warning signs of a doomed coastline
Your City Is Probably More Segregated Than It Was in 1990, New Study Shows
Segregation’s hold on the country has led to Black and Latino communities’ disproportionate exposure to environmental pollutants
I Moved to Portland Because It Seemed Like a Safe Bet in the Face of Climate Change. I Was Naive
A dispatch from under the heat dome that shattered temperature records in the Pacific Northwest
Our Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Extreme heat causes a cascade of climate chaos, and the way we deal with it — air conditioning — is only cooking our planet faster. Is there a better way to cool ourselves down?
How COVID-19 Vaccination Became a Climate Metaphor
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you’d like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. For years, climate policy experts have watched as the issue has been pushed off the stage at global summits to make way for the geopolitical conflict dujour. That trend…
Our Digital World Can Deliver a Greener Industrial Future
The globalization of manufacturing has transformed some of the world’s poorest nations to unprecedented levels of economic prosperity. But the resulting increase in poorly controlled emissions and eco-degradation has caused unsustainable levels of local air and water pollution, destabilizing the climate and threatening biodiversity. Just as the vast development of technology hastened this cycle of…