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Good news stories about climate change from 2018 that you might have missed
Start 2019 with some positive news about climate change.
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Our favorite climate stories you might have missed in 2018
We asked reporters and editors to share their favorite articles they worked on this year. Here are some stories behind the stories.
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2018: The year in climate change
From dire climate reports to ravenous urchins and vanishing heritage sites, here are the climate stories you shouldn’t miss from this year.
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Peter Dykstra: Year in review — Measuring the US government’s 2018 footprint ... on Mother Nature’s throat
Some of the worst outrages of the year
The year saw President Donald Trump's promised multi-front assault on environmental values, regulations and science bear some toxic fruit.
Climate denial may finally be in decline in much of the world, but in the U.S. government, it rises again and again, like the drowned-in-the-bathtub villain in a Stephen King movie.
From the Environmental Protection Agency to the Education, Energy and Commerce Departments, government websites were scrubbed clean of information on climate change. Trump also continued his pitch for "clean coal" and promised a big comeback for a domestic industry that began and ended the year on life support.
The U.S. embarrassed itself at a December United Nations climate meeting in Poland with an awkward and misplaced pitch for fossil fuels.
Ted Cruz won re-election despite an unexpectedly strong challenge from Congressman Beto O'Rourke. Cruz is expected to become chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. As a subcommittee Chair, Cruz oversaw a hallucinatory hearing on climate science that featured a panel of five climate scientists, four of whom were deniers.
It seems that just about anything that the Obama Administration had done related to the environment has been targeted by the Trump Administration.
Just this month alone: the Trump Administration proposed rollbacks for the Waters of the United States rule, which protects tens of thousands of small streams and adjacent wetlands; and Congress failed to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a bedrock piece of the federal conservation effort that had seen bipartisan support and virtually no controversy in its 53-year history.
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It’s time to face the inescapable truth: We’re running out of time on climate change
The transition away from fossil fuels will be difficult. But it is essential for our planet’s survival.
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Like it or not, the water is coming: will the Bay Area defend against rising seas, or embrace them?
You can shove water back from the land, or let the land flood, but either way, San Francisco Bay is getting higher. Along more than 400 miles of shoreline, where at least 40 communities touch water, rising seas are challenging our choices about how to live with them.
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