As climate change hits the Southeast, communities wrestle with politics, funding

From Florida to West Virginia, cities and states are behind in meeting the challenge of climate change head on.

Study: Redlining intensifies the impact of climate change in urban areas

The legacy of the discriminatory federal housing policy known as redlining continues to deprive some urban neighborhoods of investment. A new study maps how that former policy worsens the impacts of climate change.

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Is weakening a landmark environmental law Trump's biggest rollback yet?

“It's a fundamental attack on our system of environmental protection."

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House Republicans caught between Trump and young voters on climate change

GOP leaders are putting together their own more modest set of climate policies that their party can rally behind.

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After deadly floods, West Virginia created a resiliency office. It's barely functioning

As communities rebuild after West Virginia's 2016 once-in-a-millennia flooding, the state's response to the climate challenge has been mixed, at best, raising questions about how prepared people will be for the next disaster.

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A rare species of tree was saved from Australia's wildfires. And something else happened

A coalition of firefighters and others saved some of the world’s most endangered trees from being consumed by wildfire in Australia—or “Oz,” as locals call their country. What could we learn from this?

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This map shows where Americans might move as sea levels rise

Projecting the migration patterns of people leaving coastal cities shows which cities need to prepare for a population influx.

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Records of change

Thanks to foresight and meticulous records collected nearly a century ago, scientists are reconstructing a picture of some of Mexico's most important ecosystems before were transformed.

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South Carolina has no statewide plan to fight climate change

Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican and Trump booster, is cool to the idea of a statewide climate plan, saying it could create more bureaucracy.

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America’s climate refugees are pleading for help. The government has no answer.

Four tribes and one Native Alaskan village need to be relocated due to rising waters.

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Meet the millennial farmers we’ll be counting on to endure climate change

On Bite podcast's 100th episode, we celebrate the next generation of American growers.

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Australia fires: Scott Morrison's handling of crisis flails behind response of state premiers, says poll

Just 32 per cent of voters approved of Scott Morrison's handling of the bushfire crisis across the country, with more than half happy with state premiers.

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Ocean acidification is literally dissolving the shells of dungeness crabs

In a recent peer-reviewed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded study published in Science of the Total Environment, populations of our beloved crustacean in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia were found to have shell damaged linked to an increasingly acidic Pacific.

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Scots Tory leadership hopeful claims global warming could ‘benefit’ Scotland - and insists cows are ‘climate-friendly’

Scottish Tory leadership hopeful Michelle Ballantyne claimed global warming could "benefit" Scotland - and insisted our cows are "climate-friendly".

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In Glacier National Park, ice isn't the only thing that's disappearing

Two species of tiny stonefly have been added to the Endangered Species List because their habitat is expected to melt by 2030.

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Antarctica’s ecosystem hit by climate change

The frozen continent of Antarctica may be far from the world's population centers – but what happens in the rest of the world is having a big impact there. Roxana Saberi traveled to the region with researchers to see what must be done to protect the area.

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E.P.A. is letting cities dump more raw sewage into rivers for years to come

The agency is allowing cities to delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems.

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Booming plastics industry faces backlash as data about environmental harm grows

Environmentalists cite “an incredible disconnect” between government support for plastics manufacturing and evidence of the industry’s pollution and climate impact.

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