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![A fire burning over a large swath of the Arctic, amid record heat in 2019.]()
![A fire burning over a large swath of the Arctic, amid record heat in 2019.]()
Summer just started, and the Arctic already topped 100 degrees
100.4 degrees in Verkhoyansk, Russia, looks like an Arctic record.
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![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
![A pattern of face masks, some with red exes on top of them, on a yellow background]()
What greater good? COVID is unmasking America’s collective action problem.
The debate over masks shows the limits of American cooperation.
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![Thawing permafrost soil]()
![Thawing permafrost soil]()
Arctic forecast: Sunny with a higher chance of carbon emissions
A process called photomineralization could release an additional 30 billion metric tons of carbon from melting permafrost.
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![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
![Illustration of battery storage in a renewable grid]()
Construction begins on the world’s biggest liquid air battery
The battery will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.
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![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
![A bank in the style of the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz]()
A prescription for a post-COVID economy: A national climate bank
It probably won't happen if President Trump wins in November.
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![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
![tarp going over an italian glacier]()
This Alpine glacier is melting. So a ski resort put a tarp on it.
Alpine resorts get creative to combat rising temperatures.
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![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
![View of jeans being washed in water with soap bubbles]()
Clean clothes or clean oceans? Now you don’t have to choose.
The key to lowering your microfiber footprint: wash your clothes on cold.
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![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
![U.K. researcher Andrew Gray geotags snow algae blooms on Anchorage Island, Antarctica.]()
Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ is sucking carbon out of the air
A new study reveals that the continent's green patches act as a carbon sink.
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Reflections on Father’s Day a decade after losing my dad
The COVID-19 pandemic is turning many people's parents into full-time patients. I know how that feels.
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![extreme heat home builder]()
![extreme heat home builder]()
Climate change is killing Americans. Health departments aren’t equipped to respond.
How a decade of neglect and politics undermined the CDC’s fight against climate change.
