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100-year floods: The metric behind America’s infrastructure is out of date, and thanks to climate change we’re paying the price

We thought we knew how often heavy storms were supposed to occur. We were wrong.

Resilience

Nitish Pahwa: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Fiona blackout is the latest entirely avoidable climate tragedy

Locals knew what to do about the infrastructure problems that extreme weather revealed. Their hands were tied.
Solutions

Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"

Extreme cold paralyzed the state in 2021. Extreme heat almost took it down again.
Politics

The Supreme Court's attack on the Clean Water Act was too radical for John Roberts

Five justices used the shadow docket to revive a Trump-era rule meant to rubber-stamp pipelines and other energy projects.
Solutions

Climate divestment at Harvard: what activists will do now

The climate divestment movement has been extremely successful. It’s also attracting new enemies.
Solutions

Dear celebrities: You can't sell NFTs and say you're helping the planet

However you feel about it, there’s no doubt that 2021 was crypto’s year, and not just because Elon Musk made Dogecoin jokes on SNL. If you learned what the blockchain is for the first time over the last 12 months, it was very likely because of NFTs.

Climate change history: How journalists in the 1900s covered an emerging science

The weather of 1911 was weird—or so reported the March 1912 edition of Popular Mechanics. Among reports of zeppelins, new developments in submarine tech, an electronic hearing aid from France, and the innovative use of canaries in coal mines in Tennessee, there’s a four-page illustrated feature on climate change.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Vanishing Bayous: On a boat at ground zero for sea level rise

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Department of Energy allocates $134 million for fusion funding

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Study finds Indigenous territories of Amazon rainforest can protect humans from disease

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New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

CLIMATE
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Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants

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Wright and Burgum urge Europe to rethink methane curbs