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Climate Change Global Warming.

California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out

California made historic investments in climate measures this year, as state leaders warned of current and escalating climate risks.  “We’re dealing with such extremes that all our modeling, even updated modeling, needs to be thrown out,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom when he signed more than 40 bills to fight climate change in September. “The hots […]
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Climate Change Global Warming.

Mathematical Alarms Could Help Predict and Avoid Climate Tipping Points

When New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell published the best-selling book The Tipping Point in 2000, he was writing, in part, about the baffling drop in crime that started in the 1990s. The concept of a tipping point was that small changes at a certain threshold can lead to large, abrupt and sometimes irreversible systemic changes. […]
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Climate Change Global Warming.

Why the Language of Climate Change Matters

In a 1920 edition of a local Pennsylvania newspaper, a brief article appeared with a simple title: “The Chestnut.” Although this was a story about a species of tree, it read more like an obituary for a beloved relative. “All hope is abandoned of saving the American chestnut from the blight,” the writer declared, predicting […]
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Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases

Historically, the global aluminum industry curbed emissions of one of the most potent greenhouse gases using a surprisingly simple method: a stick. Standing over a huge bubbling pot of molten aluminum, workers would plunge a long wooden pole into the pot to stop a chemical reaction that disrupted aluminum production and released the powerful emissions.  […]
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Climate Change Global Warming.

In a Famed Game Park Near the Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Animals Are Giving Up

Photography by Larry C. Price This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. AMBOSELI, Kenya—A wildebeest has toppled into a ditch at the edge of a dusty track, its shoe-box-shaped head twisted upward, a single gaping chomp out of its flank. Isack Marembe and Kisham Makui study the animal’s body […]
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Global Warming. Renewable Energy.

One Farmer Set Off a Solar Energy Boom in Rural Minnesota; 10 Years Later, Here’s How It Worked Out

CENTER CITY, Minnesota—It sounded absurd, the idea of spending a large sum of money to install solar panels in a Minnesota farm field that is covered in snow for much of the year. But Ed Eichten’s family had gotten used to his wild ideas that turned out to work, like raising bison to sell or […]
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Climate Change Global Warming.

As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It

In his third autobiography, the famed abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass lingered on the impact of a novel that he deemed “a work of marvelous depth and power.” When “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published in 1852, Douglass wrote, “nothing could have better suited the moral and humane requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, […]
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Global Warming. Renewable Energy.

California Regulators Approve Reduced Solar Compensation for Homeowners

California utility regulators on Thursday unanimously approved long-anticipated changes to how the state compensates homeowners with renewable energy installations, reducing financial incentives for the electricity generated from solar on customer’s rooftops.  The vote came after more than three hours of public comment in which many California residents expressed concern that the decision would imperil the […]
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Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

Photography by Larry C. Price This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. TORICHA, Kenya—If there’s a ring around the sun, it will rain. If the gude bird sings in descending notes, the skies will open. If vultures gather, the showers will begin.  Everyone reads the signs, but they don’t mean what they […]
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Global Warming.

For Many, the Global Warming Confab That Rose in the Egyptian Desert Was a Mirage

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt—The madness of COP27 started at the airport, where 50 diesel buses idled under the hot sun with doors wide open and air conditioners blasting until they headed out, often with just a handful of attendees aboard, delivering them to a far-flung network of hotels sprawled along the reef-fringed coast of the southern […]