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100-year floods: The metric behind America’s infrastructure is out of date, and thanks to climate change we’re paying the price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

Impacts
Nitish Pahwa: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Fiona blackout is the latest entirely avoidable climate tragedy
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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.
Resilience
Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"
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Texas power outages: The grid doesn't look very "fixed"

Extreme cold paralyzed the state in 2021. Extreme heat almost took it down again.
Causes
The Supreme Court's attack on the Clean Water Act was too radical for John Roberts
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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.
Politics
Climate divestment at Harvard: what activists will do now
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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 history journalism
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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
Man in yellow safety vest and hard hat standing on a roof with solar panels.

House Republicans push to end solar tax breaks, putting rooftop systems out of reach for many

A view of a nuclear tower looking up through the top opening.

Trump aims to tighten White House grip on nuclear regulation

LNG tanker with bright yellow tanks viewed from above.

Major insurer drops coverage for Louisiana LNG project amid pollution concerns

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Disaster aid on a flatbed truck.

Congress proposes major reforms to FEMA in bid to counter Trump cuts

group of people walking inside building without lights.

How fragile power grids and extreme weather combined to cause Europe’s biggest blackout in decades

Regenerative agriculture drought resilience

As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

CLIMATE
A huge tornado touches down on the horizon of a green plain.

New storms pound the South as families mourn lost lives and homes

Homes in Florida perched on the edge of a beach dune eroded by a hurricane.

New FEMA chief says states must take the lead on disaster recovery this hurricane season