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Stop building a spaceship to Mars and just plant some damn trees
If we filled all the extra space on the planet with trees, we could cut carbon by about 25 percent (in theory).
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We’re on track to blow our carbon budget. Are we doomed?
But there’s a glass half full side to it, too.
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What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.
Robert Macfarlane goes underground to see how humans will be remembered.
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150 million trees died in California’s drought, and worse is to come
A new study suggests more bad news for California's trees.
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What does this record heatwave mean for Alaska?
It's beach season in Anchorage, and climate scientists aren't the only ones worried about it.
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This was the hottest June in history, and summer is just getting started
The month brought misery to huge swaths of the planet.
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Is it time to retire ‘climate change’ for ‘climate crisis’?
News organizations like The Guardian and Telemundo are making the switch.
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Forget colonizing Mars. We can all move to Russia when the world heats up.
A new study finds that Siberia will be much more hospitable to human life under global warming.
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Big Oil and environmentalists alike are mad about the EPA’s new summer ethanol rules
There could be more ethanol in your gasoline this summer. What does that mean for farmers, clean air, and the climate?
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Climate action could avert hundreds of heat-related deaths in these 15 U.S. cities
You might want to pay attention, Miami.
