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‘Wait for the clock to run out’: Louisiana offshore wind energy leaders look beyond Trump

Trump’s crackdown brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies are trying to keep the industry alive until the political winds change.
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Clarence Thomas is in the hot seat for US Supreme Court’s biggest climate case in years

When it comes to perhaps the most significant climate change-related case to reach the high court in nearly two decades, environmentalists aren’t yet writing Thomas off, even though he has consistently sided against them.

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Sea levels on the West Coast to rise by a foot as Kelvin waves hit

Sea levels along the West Coast will begin to rise by up to a foot this month as a series of pulses of warm water called Kelvin waves hit the shoreline and move north.

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21 states sue EPA to reinstate climate pollution rules for power plants

Democrat-led states and cities argue that the rollback harms public health and the environment.
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Gas from thawing Arctic permafrost is changing world's climate future

Scientists warn that thawing permafrost in the Arctic is releasing large amounts of methane and carbon dioxide, adding to global warming.
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‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five years

Switzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moonlike rock deserts, scientists say.

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Climate change’s compounding pressures on rural North Carolina

Areas like Robeson County face some of the greatest climate risks, but have fewer resources to cope with extreme heat and flooding.
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The surprising allies backing Boulder's climate case before the Supreme Court

Ranchers, conservative legal scholars, and former Republican EPA chiefs are siding against oil companies. Here's why.
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‘Thrilling’: Dutch cattle farmers switch to rice as solution to warmer climate and sinking peatlands

Dutch cattle farming dries out peatland and releases CO2. Is switching to Japanese rice-growing a solution?
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California illegally spurred “gold rush in cow manure,” lawsuit alleges

California regulators broke state environmental laws by allowing polluters to buy clean fuel credits from large farms that are extracting gas from manure, a policy that harms poor communities and perverts the state’s clean air program, four advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit.
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Vietnam's largest city lives with floods as climate change raises the stakes

Ho Chi Minh City has learned to live with flooding as high tides from the Saigon River and smaller waterways regularly inundate roads and businesses.

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