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Amazon rainforest fires quickly shaping G7 summit with Trump, Macron

"This speaks to climate change being an issue at the highest level of international discourse," one professor of earth and atmospheric sciences said.

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www.geekwire.com

How Jay Inslee moved the ball on the climate issue – and why he fell short

Climate policy experts are already musing over the next chapter in the presidential campaign after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s exit from the Democratic field.

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www.geekwire.com

www.newsweek.com

Not the Onion: Fox News host expresses frustration that young Americans believe in climate change

"They want to fight the weather. The rest of us want to deal with real threats," Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth said.

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www.newsweek.com

theprint.in

Climate change deniers dominate YouTube searches on warming crisis, study finds

The study was conducted by a researcher at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and published in Frontiers of Communication.

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www.nytimes.com

Summer on the swollen Great Lakes

The lakes rose this year to levels not seen in decades. A 1,234-mile drive around one of them revealed what all that water has left behind — vanishing beaches, closed roads, new islands.

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www.nytimes.com

What the Amazon fires mean for wild animals

“In the Amazon, nothing is adapted to fire.” 10 percent of Earth’s animal species live there.

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www.nationalgeographic.com

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David Koch, billionaire who fueled right-wing movement, dies at 79

A man-about-town philanthropist, he and his brother Charles ran a business colossus while furthering a libertarian agenda that reshaped American politics.

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thebulletin.org

Peter Gleick: Climate change and the Titanic

"Don't worry, there are no climate changes ahead. Full speed ahead." A tongue-in-cheek (?) scenario.

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www.cnn.com

Cycads: Ancient tropical plants produce cones in UK for first time on record

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change.

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www.nytimes.com

Amazon rain forests are on fire, and Brazil faces a global backlash

The fires scorching the Amazon come amid growing concern that Brazil’s weakening environmental policies could jeopardize the country’s trade and foreign relations.

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www.politico.com

A new tone from some Republicans on climate change - mostly behind closed doors

Though a significant bloc of the party continues to deny the basic science of the issue, some senior Republicans are showing a willingness to consider incremental legislation to turbo-charge clean energy research funding, invest in greening buildings, support electric vehicle charging infrastructure and promote energy efficiency.

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www.theguardian.com

Sugarcane farmers support group working to undermine Great Barrier Reef science

Queensland cane growers' groups are backing an opaque front organisation working to undermine Great Barrier Reef consensus science, including publishing claims that "we know in our hearts and minds" that the experts are wrong.

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www.theguardian.com

Groups sue Trump for weakening protections of animals endangered by climate crisis

Trump administration's move is a 'head in the sand approach to climate change' that will further imperil creatures.

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www.bbc.com

Are there alternatives to air conditioning?

As summer temperatures rise, more buildings are installing energy-hungry air conditioners – a major contributor to climate change. But are there other ways to cool buildings down?

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stateimpact.npr.org

Wolf tells pipeline activists he won’t shut down Mariner East

Gov. Tom Wolf met Chester County residents at a pipeline construction site.

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www.penncapital-star.com

Southeast Pa. lawmakers want to create a board on pipeline safety. Regulators have concerns about record privacy

Suburban Philadelphia lawmakers are trying to figure out how much transparency is too much as local governments and the public clamor for more information about the risks of natural gas pipelines.

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www.penncapital-star.com

www.abc.net.au

Brazil says it lacks resources to fight Amazon wildfires as dispute rages over who is to blame

The Brazilian Government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro says.

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www.abc.net.au

Climate change evacuation planning needs to start now, urges scientists

Low-lying islands, coastal towns and cities will need to be abandoned in the future as climate change gets worse.

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www.abc.net.au

The case for strategic and managed climate retreat

Faced with global warming, rising sea levels, and the climate-related extremes they intensify, the question is no longer whether some communities will retreat but why, where, when, and how they will retreat.

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