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The 2020 hurricane season is tearing through the alphabet at ‘LMNOP’ speed
Marco has weakened, but Laura has become a hurricane.
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LA’s homeless communities are avoiding cooling centers, and it’s not just because of COVID-19
Pinned between the climate crisis, COVID, and street sweeps, homeless people in L.A. are struggling to keep cool.
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Harvard activists’ new fossil fuel divestment strategy: Make it an inside job.
Three divestment activists just won seats on the board with a say over who controls the school’s $40.9 billion endowment.
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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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Why does Joe Biden call climate change an ‘enormous opportunity’?
“America’s history tells us that it has been in our darkest moments that we’ve made our greatest progress."
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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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![A man turns away from a large wind turbine and raises his fist in support of Joe Biden]()
![A man turns away from a large wind turbine and raises his fist in support of Joe Biden]()
The DNC virtual roll call was also a cry for climate action
They didn't just talk about their love for calamari.
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Will fossil fuel sponsors be allowed at the next U.N. climate conference?
After years of fossil fuel logos, COP26 organizers are requiring sponsors to have a net-zero commitment.
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![A pipeline stretches through partly frozen tundra in Alaska.]()
![A pipeline stretches through partly frozen tundra in Alaska.]()
The irony: ConocoPhillips hopes to freeze thawing permafrost to drill more oil
Climate change is melting the ground so fast that the company may need to use "chilling devices."
