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Hurricane Ernesto arrived way early. It’s an ominous sign.
A third Atlantic hurricane usually doesn't form until three weeks from now. Yet here's Ernesto, bearing down on Bermuda.
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![a man holding a hose approaches the edge of an embankment with trees on fire]()
![a man holding a hose approaches the edge of an embankment with trees on fire]()
Climate change fueled last year’s extreme wildfires — some more than others
If emissions aren’t curbed, extreme wildfires could become six to 11 times more likely by the end of the century.
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We’re in debt to the Earth. How can we repay it?
"Earth Overshoot Day" reminds us that humans consume more resources than the planet can provide. Correcting that requires reimagining human behavior.
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New fossils reveal an ice-free Greenland. It’s bad news for sea level rise.
“We’re creating a world where these ice sheets are going to melt.”
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California’s Park Fire is spawning its own smoke thunderclouds
Pyrocumulonimbus clouds might offer a terrifying peek at the future of wildfires.
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Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
As global temperatures rise and seasons shift, bees and other pollinators are missing critical connections with flowers and crops.
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Can Florida’s orange growers survive another hurricane season?
A perfect storm of hurricanes, diseases, and water scarcity threatens to wipe out the state's famed citrus industry.
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Inside a new experiment to find the climate-proof coffee of the future
An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew.
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‘Wood vaulting’: A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of
Forests throughout the West are overgrown and full of flammable vegetation, fueling wildfires and carbon emissions. Could burying it help solve the problem?
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![The white and yellow flower of a Key Largo cactus is seen in full bloom. The plant is the first species in the U.S. driven to extinction by sea level rise.]()
![The white and yellow flower of a Key Largo cactus is seen in full bloom. The plant is the first species in the U.S. driven to extinction by sea level rise.]()
In a first, rising seas drove an entire species to extinction in the US
Sea level rise has eradicated a U.S. species for the first time. What's next?
